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PublisherFordham University Press

ISBN-100823239152

ISBN-139780823239153

eBay Product ID (ePID)109029041

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Book TitleToni Morrison : an Ethical Poetics

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicAmerican / African American, Women Authors

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorYvette Christiansë

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2012-029527

Reviews"A rich, powerful, and refreshing contribution to the study of Toni Morrison's oeuvre. This book engages the Nobel laureate's work with uncommon clarity and command, while brilliantly situating language and its ethical dimensions at the center of its inquiry. Blending convincing and careful close readings with critical theory, Yvette Christians crafts a fine, durable interpretive lens through which we may more intelligently view the challenges and power of Morrison's art."-Stphane Robolin, Rutgers University, "A rich, powerful, and refreshing contribution to the study of Toni Morrison's oeuvre. This book engages the Nobel laureate's work with uncommon clarity and command, while brilliantly situating language and its ethical dimensions at the center of its inquiry. Blending convincing and careful close readings with critical theory, Yvette Christiansë crafts a fine, durable interpretive lens through which we may more intelligently view the challenges and power of Morrison's art."-Stéphane Robolin, Rutgers University, Christianse's Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics is an exceptional, even singular contribution to what has by now become a rather voluminous scholarly literature on Morrison's work. Given its critical acuity and its unparalleled breadth (treating all of Morrison's fiction through the 2008 novel A Mercy), Christianse's book will be an invaluable resource and scholarly model for those teaching and writing about Morrison. -----Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University, Christianse's Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics is an exceptional, even singular contribution to what has by now become a rather voluminous scholarly literature on Morrison's work. Given its critical acuity and its unparalleled breadth (treating all of Morrison's fiction through the 2008 novel A Mercy ), Christianse's book will be an invaluable resource and scholarly model for those teaching and writing about Morrison. ---Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University, Christianse's Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics is an exceptional, even singular contribution to what has by now become a rather voluminous scholarly literature on Morrison's work. Given its critical acuity and its unparalleled breadth (treating all of Morrison's fiction through the 2008 novel A Mercy), Christianse's book will be an invaluable resource and scholarly model for those teaching and writing about Morrison., "Christianse's Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics is an exceptional, even singular contribution to what has by now become a rather voluminous scholarly literature on Morrison's work. Given its critical acuity and its unparalleled breadth (treating all of Morrison's fiction through the 2008 novel A Mercy), Christianse's book will be an invaluable resource and scholarly model for those teaching and writing about Morrison." --Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University, Christianse's Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics is an exceptional, even singular contribution to what has by now become a rather voluminous scholarly literature on Morrison's work. Given its critical acuity and its unparalleled breadth (treating all of Morrison's fiction through the 2008 novel A Mercy ), Christianse's book will be an invaluable resource and scholarly model for those teaching and writing about Morrison.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813.54

SynopsisToni 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.O8749Z612