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Author Zauditu-Selassie, K.

Title African spiritual traditions in the novels of Toni Morrison / K. Zauditu-Selassie.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
Contents I's got the blues : Malochia, magic, and the descent into madness in The bluest eye -- Always: the living ancestor and the testimony of Will in Sula -- I've got a home in date rock: ritual and the construction of family history in Song of Solomon -- Dancing with trees and dreaming of yellow dresses: the dilemma of Jadine in Tar baby -- In(her)iting the divine: (consola)tions, sacred (convent)ions, and mediations of the spiritual in-between in Paradise -- Living with the dead: memory and ancestral presence in Beloved -- Tracing Wild's child Joe and tracking the hunter: an examination of the Órísá Ochossi in Jazz -- If I'd a knowed more, I would a loved more: Toni Morrison's Love and spiritual authorship.
Summary Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. K. Zauditu-Selassie delves deeply into African spiritual traditions, clearly explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison's novels.
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Subject Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni.
Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni -- Spirtualistic interpretations.
Morrison, Toni -- Knowledge and learning -- Africa.
Africa.
Morrison, Toni.
Morrison, Toni -- Quellen und Vorbilder.
Morrison, Toni.
American literature -- African influences.
American literature -- African influences.
Yoruba (African people) in literature.
Yoruba (African people) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Spirituality in literature.
Spirituality in literature.
Africa -- In literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Zauditu-Selassie, K. African spiritual traditions in the novels of Toni Morrison. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2009 9780813033280 (DLC) 2008040296 (OCoLC)256532887
ISBN 9780813040097 (electronic book)
0813040094 (electronic book)
9780813033280
0813033284