The identifying fictions of Toni Morrison: modernist authenticity and postmodern blackness

The identifying fictions of Toni Morrison: modernist authenticity and postmodern blackness

Duvall, John

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Using new biographical information, John Duvall explores the issue of names and naming in Morrison's fiction and repeatedly finds surprising traces of the Nobel Prize-winning author's struggle to construct a useable identity as an African American woman novelist. INDICE: Introductory Identifications: Making it Up or Finding It? - Invisible Name and Complex Authority in The Bluest Eye : Morrison's Covert Letter toRalph Ellison - Engendering Sexual/Textual Identity: Sula and the Artistic Gaze - Song of Solomon, Narrative Identity, and the Faulknerian Intertext - Descent in the ""House of Chloe"": Rape, Race, and Identity in Tar Baby - The Authorized Morrison: Reflexivity and the Historiographic -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-62308-8
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 192
  • Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés