Dangerous freedom : fusion and fragmentation in Toni Morrison's novels / Philip Page.
The novels of Toni Morrison depict a disjointed culture striving to coalesce in a racialized society. No other contemporary writer conveys this "double consciousness" of African-American life so faithfully. As her characters struggle to negotiate meaningful roles and identities, and as the...
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University Press of Mississippi,
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Table of Contents:
- The puzzle of the one-and-the-many
- Morrison's novels as texts, not works
- The break was a bad one: the split world of The bluest eye
- Shocked into separateness: unresolved oppositions in Sula
- Putting it all together: attempted unification in Song of Solomon
- Everyone was out of place: contention and dissolution in Tar baby
- Anything dead coming back to life hurts: circularity in Beloved
- Make me, remake me: traces, cracks, and wells in Jazz
- What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?