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Throughout her novels, Toni Morrison explores the complex interaction of race, class, culture, and gender. This study takes into account both Western and Black traditions to show how Morrison not only denounces the constricting patterns of the dominant culture, but also, through the reversal or subversion of Western stereotypes, harnesses the rich potential for the significance they contain. While most recent studies of Morrison examine individual works separately, this book concentrates on particular dimensions of Morrison's fiction and explores the continuities and developments from her first to most recent novel. And while other studies generally approach Morrison from a particular critical perspective, this book instead considers the interaction of multiple determinants such as race and gender, and gives special attention to the pressure exerted by dominant cultural forms. The authors demonstrate how in contradiction to the dominant culture's ideology of unity and homogeneity, Morrison makes a case for the value of difference in a diverse society.Product Identifiers
PublisherABC-Clio
ISBN-139780313289804
eBay Product ID (ePID)90599080
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Publication Year1994
SubjectSocial Sciences
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameA World of Difference: an Inter-Cultural Study of Toni Morrison's Novels
TypeTextbook
AuthorWendy Harding, Jacky Martin
FormatHardcover
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorWendy Harding, Jacky Martin