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Toni Morrison
Series: Contemporary World Writers
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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.
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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