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"And All of the Interests Are Vested": Canon Building in Recent Morrison Criticism
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This article is published in Modern Fiction Studies.The article was published on 1993-01-01. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Literary criticism & Criticism.read more
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.
Trudier Harris,Toni Morrison +1 more
TL;DR: Morrison as mentioned in this paper argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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Women in German Yearbook I. Feminist Studies and German Culture@@@The New Feminist Criticism. Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory
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Art and the Accidental in Anne Tyler.@@@The Crime of Innocence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison.
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Migration, mental health and social identity in Toni Morrison's trilogy
TL;DR: Bugra et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed Toni Morrison's trilogy, Beloved (1987), Jazz (1993) and Paradise (1997), and found that mental health problems in migrant women are partly due to gender-specific stresses, premigration traumas, post-migration stress factors and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Literary popularity: Beloved and pop culture
TL;DR: A central preoccupation animating the rich body of criticism on Toni Morrison's Beloved concerns the novel's placement in American literary history as mentioned in this paper, while other critics have sought to orient the novel in relation to, variously, African American folklore, the black oral tradition, the nineteenth century slave narrative, the fiction of William Faulkner and postmodernist fiction.
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
TL;DR: The Black Atlantic as mentioned in this paper is a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once; a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked.
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
TL;DR: Morrison as discussed by the authors argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
TL;DR: In this paper, the black atlantic modernity and double consciousness is open in our digital library an online entrance to it is set as public fittingly you can download it instantly.
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The Race for Theory
TL;DR: The race for theory as mentioned in this paper has been a hot topic in the last few decades in the field of philosophy, and it has become a commodity that helps determine whether we are hired or promoted in academic institutions-worse, whether our voices are heard at all.
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Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness
TL;DR: In a splendidly witty dialogue of 1975, Carolyn Heilbrun and Catharine Stimpson identified two poles of feminist literary criticism: the first is righteous, angry, and admonitory; the second is disinterested and seeking "the grace of imagination" as discussed by the authors.