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Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Toni Morrison's construction of alternative and oppositional narratives of history and places her work as central to the imagining and re-imagining of American and diasporic identities. Covering the Nobel Prize-winning author's novels (up to Home), as well as her essays, dramatic works and short stories, this book situates Morrison's writings within both African-American and American writing traditions and examines them in terms of her continuous dialogue with the politics, philosophy and literary forms of these traditions.
Introduction : 'The changing same' -- 1 Historical and literary context : The Harlem Renaissance -- 2 Ideology, identity and the community : The bluest eye (1970) and Sula (1973) -- 3 Intertextuality and gender politics : Song of Solomon (1977) and Tar baby (1981) -- 4 Repetition, memory and the end of race : Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1998) -- 5 Reading and writing : Love (2003), A mercy (2008), Home (2012).
Includes bibliographical references and index.