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An introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction, this text focuses on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. It approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's foreword
1 Chronology
2 Contexts and Intertexts
3 Anger and Shame in The Bluest Eye
4 Sula: war and Peace traumas
5 Song of Solomon: raising Dead fathers
6 Tar Baby : a message mailed from under the sink
7 Beloved: the possessions of history
8 `A sweettooth for pain': history, trauma and replay in Jazz
9 Critical overview
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Toni Morrison

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 7/23/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719044489, 978-0719044489
      ISBN10: 0719044480

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction, this text focuses on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. It approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history.

      Table of Contents

      Series Editor's foreword
      1 Chronology
      2 Contexts and Intertexts
      3 Anger and Shame in The Bluest Eye
      4 Sula: war and Peace traumas
      5 Song of Solomon: raising Dead fathers
      6 Tar Baby : a message mailed from under the sink
      7 Beloved: the possessions of history
      8 `A sweettooth for pain': history, trauma and replay in Jazz
      9 Critical overview
      Notes
      Select Bibliography
      Index

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