The Timeless Toni Morrison - The Past and The Present in Toni Morrison's Fiction. A Tribute to Toni Morrison on Occasion of Her 85th Birthday

The book presents a cultural study of Toni Morrison's fiction, focused on her representations of the past and present, along with the relationship between the two. The authors analyze Morrison's texts not solely as aesthetic, autonomous objects but as manifestations of a cultural and creative practice closely related to actuality. They examine various incorporations of history in Morrison's writings. The contributions search out thematic continuities as well as discernable ruptures in the texts while noting futuristic tendencies in Morrison's novels and the texts' envisagement of the human race.

List of contents

Revisiting history - Transcending painful memory - Reconsidering race - Verifying the role of a literary text

About the author

Agnieszka¿obodziec is Assistant Professor at the English Department of the University of Zielona Góra.

Blossom N. Fondo is Associate Professor at the Department of English in the Higher Teacher Training College of the University of Maroua.

Product details

• Assisted by: Agnieszka ¿Obodziec (Editor), Blossom N. Fondo (Editor), Agnieszka Lobodziec (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783631672624
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67262-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 16 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: New Americanists in Poland; New Americanists in Poland
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies