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Book SynopsisToni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience.
Trade Review"Christianse's Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics is an exceptional, even singular contribution to what has by now become a rather voluminous scholarly literature on Morrison's work. Given its critical acuity and its unparalleled breadth (treating all of Morrison's fiction through the 2008 novel A Mercy), Christianse's book will be an invaluable resource and scholarly model for those teaching and writing about Morrison." -- -Brent Hayes Edwards Columbia University
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. From Witnessing to Death Dealing: On Speaking of and for the Dead 2. Burnt Offerings: Law and Sacrifice 3. Time Out of Joint: The Temporal Logic of Morrison's Modernist Apocalyptics 4. Beginning and Ending, Part One: Old Languages New Bodies 5. Beginnings and Endings, Part Two: The Poetics of Similitude and Disavowal at Utopia's Gates 6. Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
