Bodily evidence : racism, slavery, and maternal power in the novels of Toni Morrison /

Bodily evidence : racism, slavery, and maternal power in the novels of Toni Morrison / Geneva Cobb Moore.

"The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Geneva Cobb Moore explores how Morrison captures and mirrors the trag...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Moore, Geneva Cobb (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina, [2020]
Subjects:
Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni.
African American mothers in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Racism in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Toni Morrison's demonic parody of racism and slavery
  • The Bluest Eye : Jim Crow America and the cultural womb of stillbirth
  • Sula : the bottom as dispossessed maternal womb
  • Song of Solomon : paternal law versus the maternal spirit of sacrifice
  • Beloved : the African American Holocaust of American slavery
  • Paradise : utopia and dystopia in the all-negro community
  • Tar Baby, Jazz, Love, and A Mercy : the rejection/absence of a loving maternal force
  • Home
  • God Help the Child
  • Afterword : Toni Morrison, 1931-2019.

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