{"product_id":"critical-responses-about-the-black-family-in-toni-morrisons-god-help-the-child-conflicts-in-comradeship-9781793604002","title":"Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCritical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child explores the integral role of what Kobi Kambon has called the “conscious African family” in developing commercial success stories such as those of Morrison’s protagonist, Bride. Initially, Bride’s accomplishments are an extension of a superficial “cult of celebrity” which inhabits and undermines the development of meaningful interpersonal relationships until a significant literal and metaphorical journey helps her redefine success by facilitating the building of community and family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing at the issues from the inside, the collaboration between Rhone Fraser, Natalie King-Pedroso \u0026amp; Company, Conflicts in Comradeship, provides a timely and useful contribution to studies on the African American family along with analyses of Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Susan Neal Mayberry, Alfred University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1937, Margaret Walker wrote , “For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way\/from confusion from hypocrisy and misunderstanding,\/ trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people,\/ all the faces all the adams and eves and their countless\/ generations…” Toni Morrison’s 11th novel, God Help the Child rings with Walker’s sentiments, and Natalie King-Pedroso and Rhone Frasier’s Critical Responses about the Black Family in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: Conflicts in Comradeship does as well. This important collection of essays tackles the novel as a culminating moment in Morrison’s thought, a grief-filled extension of The Bluest Eye, and as a vessel sailing the African Ocean of mysteries. The text, like Morrison’s own, reaches out to the “shackled and tangled among ourselves” with the aim of letting a “beauty full of healing” come forth. Conflicts in Comradeship offers a unique and brave approach to criticism, collaboration, and reading Morrison’s under appreciated final work of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Monifa A. Love Asante, Bowie State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors’ Introductions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNatalie King-Pedroso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRhone Fraser \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Protagonist as Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Raising the Inner Child: Lessons in Emotional Development in God Help the Child \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJasmin Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. “The House That Race Built:” Declarations of Toni Morrison’s Prophetic Voice in God Help the Child and The Bluest Eye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKhalilah Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Making Black Lives and Families Matter: Honoring Family and Fatherhood in God Help the Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSukanya Senapati\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Harvesting Sight and Mind: The Crippling of Community in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJericho Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Protagonist as Professional\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. “Sistah From Another Mista”: Examining the Familial Bond Between Bride and Brooklyn in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNa’Imah Ford \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Loss and Regaining of Self: Identity Negotiation in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXenia Liashuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. “Memory is the Worst Thing About Healing:” Acknowledging Multigenerational Trauma and the Middle Passage Voyage of the Sable Venus in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYolanda Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Protagonist as Partner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Socialized to Silence: A Close Reading of Lula Ann Bridewell and Booker Starbern in God Help the Child According to Kobi Kambon’s African Self-Consciousness Model\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRhone Fraser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. “You Will Love Them, No Matter How Ugly Their Truth Is”: Truth, Onomastics, and Black Women’s Humanity in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child and Mara Brock Akil’s Being Mary Jane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNatalie King-Pedroso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A. Discussion Questions: Conflicts in Comradeship\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Editors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042612347223,"sku":"9781793604002","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793604002.jpg?v=1750954855","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-responses-about-the-black-family-in-toni-morrisons-god-help-the-child-conflicts-in-comradeship-9781793604002","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}