The identifying fictions of Toni Morrison : modernist authenticity and postmodern blackness
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The identifying fictions of Toni Morrison : modernist authenticity and postmodern blackness
Palgrave, 2000
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Includes index
Bibliography: p. [169]-176
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Description
Although all published biographical information on Toni Morrison agrees that her birth name was Chloe Anthony Wofford, John Duvall's book challenges this claim. Using new biographical information, he explores the issue of names and naming in Morrison's fiction and repeatedly finds surprising traces of the Nobel Prize-winning author's struggle to construct a useable identity as an African American woman novelist. Whatever the exact circumstances surrounding her decision to become Toni, one thing becomes clear: the question of identity was not a given for Morrison.
Table of Contents
Introductory Identifications: Making it Up or Finding It? Invisible Name and Complex Authority in The Bluest Eye : Morrison's Covert Letter to Ralph Ellison Engendering Sexual/Textual Identity: Sula and the Artistic Gaze Song of Solomon , Narrative Identity, and the Faulknerian Intertext Descent in the 'House of Chloe': Rape, Race, and Identity in Tar Baby The Authorized Morrison: Reflexivity and the Historiographic
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