Circles of sorrow, lines of struggle : the novels of Toni Morrison
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Circles of sorrow, lines of struggle : the novels of Toni Morrison
Louisiana State University Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This comprehensive study of the six novels of Toni Morrison situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and reconstructs social memory. "Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle" portrays Nobel laureate Morrison as a historiographer attempting to bridge the gap between emergent black middle-class America and its subaltern origins. Gurleen Grewal demonstrates how Morrison's novels perform a therapeutic and political function of recovery. What is most compelling about Morrison's fiction, Grewal posits, is its reevaluation of the individual via the complex sociopolitical heritage that bespeaks the individual. Ultimately, these fictive "circles of sorrow" invite the reader into the collective struggle of humankind who are living the long sentence of history by repeating, contesting and remaking it. "Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle" makes innovative use of postcolonial scholarship, black literary history and feminist theory, recent studies in trauma, and the implications of "minor literature" as articulated by Deleuze and Guattari.
This adept analysis shows that Toni Morrison, far from evading feminism, enables us to map the complex allegiances of a black feminism that is neither anti-male nor bourgeois, but critical of both black and white masculist discourses of violence that it must necessarily enter, understand and transform.
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