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Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison by Jill Matus offers an illuminating introduction to the fiction of Toni Morrison, focusing on her engagement with African-American history and trauma. The book explores Morrison's work as a vessel of cultural memory, highlighting how her stories bear witness to obscured and erased histories from slavery through to 20th-century racial oppression. It emphasises the tension between memory, pain and pleasure in her powerful, lyrical novels that confront difficult and haunting themes.
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This book will interest readers and students of African-American literature, cultural history and those keen to understand the role of memory and trauma in artistic expression.

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This is an introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction focusing on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. Jill Matus approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history.

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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, and argues that Morrison sees African-American history—from the times of slavery to the continued racial oppressions of the 20th century—as a history of traumatic experience. The book explores how this powerful storyteller bears witness to a painful yet enlivening past.

Morrison's novels are known for their lyric power, but they often dwell on scenes of horror. This text emphasizes the uneasy relations of memory, pain and pleasure in literature.

Series: Contemporary World Writers

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780719044489

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 July 1998

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 227g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Jill Matus is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto

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