Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison

AvHerman Beavers

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

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This book examines Toni Morrison’s fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist political imaginary and conceptualize a more inclusive political imaginary in which black bodies are valued.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-06
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:356 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Antal sidor:253
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319881485

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Herman Beavers is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Held in the Thrall: Morrison’s Southern Men and the Arrested Motion of Tight Space.- From Zero to Nowhere: Tight Space and the Topophilia of Violence.- The Housing of Hurt: The Optic of Tight Space in Jazz.- A Measure of Last Resort: Limerence and the Geometrical Shape of Community in Love.- A Pox on All Your Houses: Susceptibility, Immunity, and the Dilemma of Allegory in A Mercy.- The Precarity of Freedom: Toni Morrison and the Post-Racial Moment.