Toni Morrison : Beloved

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Toni Morrison : Beloved

edited by Carl Plasa

(Columbia critical guides / series editor, Richard Beynon)

Columbia University Press, c1998

  • : pbk

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-162) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780231115261

Description

Summarizes the critical reaction to the American writer's 1987 novel. Includes chapters on immediate reviews and interviews, the relationship of the novel to the African-American slave narrative tradition, interpretation of the uncanny figure who give title to the novel, the figuring of male and fe
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780231115278

Description

With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide places Beloved in the contexts of Morrison's oeuvre and other works of African American literature. Chapters focus on the supernatural elements of the work, as well as the author's treatment of the physical self.

Table of Contents

Introduction 'An Extraordinary Act of Imagination': Reviews of Beloved and Interviews with Toni Morrison 'Trying to Fill in the Blanks': Beloved's Intertexts 'My Girl Come Home': Reading Beloved 'This is the Flesh I'm Talking About': Language, Subjectiv ity and the Body 'It's Not Over Just Because It Stops': Post-colonialism, Psychoanalysis, History

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Details

  • NCID
    BA41876036
  • ISBN
    • 023111527X
    • 0231115261
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    167 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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