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Author Montgomery, Maxine L.

Title Contested Boundaries : New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

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Summary Contested Boundaries aims to map the space between A Mercy, Toni Morrison's ninth and arguably most enigmatic novel, and the fiction comprising the author's multiple-text canon. The volume accomplishes this through the inclusion of eight original essays representing a range of critical approaches that trouble narrative boundaries demarcating the novels included in Morrison's evolving opus, with A Mercy serving as a locus for discussion of her re-figuration of concerns central to her narrative ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Part I. 'Are you afraid?' : merciful haunting in a new world setting -- part II. 'A slave by choice' : re-reading the (neo) slave narrative -- part III. 'To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal' : memory, trauma, and maternal loss -- part Ivolume 'It was not a grace; it was a mercy' : spirituality in the Americas -- part volume 'This land is our home ... but I am exile here' : alternative geographies.
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Subject Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni.
Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni, 1931-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9781299974005
ISBN 1299974007 (e-book)
9781299974005 (e-book)
1443853313 (electronic book)
9781443853316 (electronic book)
1443851507
9781443851503