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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Toni Morrison's construction of alternative and oppositional narratives of history and places her work as central to the imagining and re-imagining of American and diasporic identities. Covering the Nobel Prize-winning author's vels (up to Home), as well as her essays, dramatic works and short stories, this book situates Morrison's writings within both African-American and American writing traditions and examines them in terms of her continuous dialogue with the politics, philosophy and literary forms of these traditions. Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition provides a comprehensive analysis of Morrison's entire oeuvre, from her early interrogation of Black Power to her engagement with fin de siecle postcolonial critiques of nationalism and twenty-first century considerations of ecology. Justine Baillie goes on to argue that Morrison's aesthetic should be understood in relation to the historical, political and cultural contexts in which it, and the African-American and American literary traditions upon which she draws, have been created and developed.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-101474222919
ISBN-139781474222914
eBay Product ID (ePID)209085361
Product Key Features
SubjectLiterary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorJustine Baillie
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication26/02/2015
Place of PublicationLondon
Spine13mm
GenreLiterary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
Author BiographyJustine Baillie is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich, UK. She has published on Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father and American Fiction.
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