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TONI MORRISON AND THE IDEA OF AFRICA By La Vinia Delois Jennings - Hardcover VG+
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- ISBN-10
- 0521885043
- Book Title
- Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- ISBN
- 9780521885041
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Topic
- American / African American, American / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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Toni Morrison's fiction has been read as a contribution to and critique of Western civilization and Christianity. La Vinia Jennings reveals the fundamental role African traditional religious symbols play in her work. Based on extensive research into West African religions and philosophy, Jennings uncovers and interprets the African themes, images and cultural resonances in Morrison's fiction. She shows how symbols brought to the Americas by West African slaves are used by Morrison in her landscapes, interior spaces, and the bodies of her characters. Jennings's analysis of these symbols shows how a West African collective worldview informs both Morrison's work, and contemporary African-American life and culture. This important contribution to Morrison studies will be of great interest to scholars of African-American literature.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521885043
ISBN-13
9780521885041
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63441061
Product Key Features
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, American / General
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.O8749 Z7 2008
Reviews
"...research on Africa and African heritage in Morrison's fiction is excellent...Recommended." - J. M. Wood, Choice, "...research on Africa and African heritage in Morrison's fiction is excellent...Recommended." <br/< - J. M. Wood, Choice, "Jennings is adept at portraying African elements in all their rich complexity and demonstrating their function in Morrison's novels without any sense of reductiveness." <br/<American Literary Scholarship, Jerome Klinkowitz, University of Northern Iowa, "Jennings is adept at portraying African elements in all their rich complexity and demonstrating their function in Morrison's novels without any sense of reductiveness." American Literary Scholarship, Jerome Klinkowitz, University of Northern Iowa
Publication Name
Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
Table of Content
1. Introduction: finding the elusive but identifiable blackness within the culture out of which Toni Morrison writes; 2. Kongo's Yowa and Dahomey's Vodun: the survival of West African traditional cosmologies in African America; 3. Bandoki: witches, ambivalent power, and the fusion of good and evil; 4. Kanda: living elders, the ancestral presence, and the ancestor as foundation; 5. Banganga: the specialists-medicine (wo)men and priest(esse)s; 6. Identifiable blackness: Toni Morrison's literary canon at the Western crossroads; Works cited; Index.
Copyright Date
2008
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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