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Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa by La Vinia Delois Jennings (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521173396
ISBN-139780521173391
eBay Product ID (ePID)92384306
Product Key Features
Number of Pages258 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameToni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
SubjectAmerican / African American, American / General
Publication Year2010
TypeTextbook
AuthorLa Vinia Delois Jennings
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight13.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
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
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813.54
Table Of Content1. 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.
SynopsisToni 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., La Vinia Jennings uncovers and interprets the African themes, images and cultural resonances in Morrison's fiction. This important contribution to Morrison studies will be of great interest to scholars of African-American literature.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.O8749
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