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  title info:
    title: Toni Morrison
    sub title: an ethical poetics
  name:
    name part: Christiansë, Yvette.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 307 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience. In foregrounding the ethics of fiction writing, the book resists any triumphalist reading of Morrison's achievement in order to allow the meditative, unsettled and unsettling questions that arise throughout her long labor at the nexus of language and politics, where her fiction interrogates representation itself. Moving between close reading and critical theory, Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics reveals the ways in which Morrison's primary engagement with language has been a search for how and what language is made to communicate, and for how and what speaks in and from generation to generation. There is no easy escape from such legacy, no escape into a pure language free of the burdens of racialized agendas. Rather, there is the example of Morrison's commitment to writerly, which is to say readerly, wakefulness. At a time when sustained study devoted to single authors has become rare, this book will be an invaluable resource for readers, scholars and teachers of Morrison's work.
  table of contents: Introduction -- From witnessing to death dealing: on speaking of and for the dead -- Burnt offerings: law and sacrifice -- Time out of joint: the temporal logic of Morrison's modernist apocalyptics -- Beginning and ending, part one: old languages/new bodies -- Beginnings and endings, part two: the poetics of similitude and disavowal at utopia's gates -- Epilogue.
  note: Yvette Christiansë.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Morrison, Toni
    topic: Technique
  classification: PS3563.O8749 Z612 2013
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9780823239153 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0823239152 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780823239160 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0823239160 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2012029527
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120806
    record change date: 20151204205437.0
    record identifier: in00003153515