Toni Morrison and womanist discourse / Aoi Mori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mori, Aoi, 1958-

Series:

Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 16.

Modern American literature ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation.

Morrison, Toni.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.

Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

African American women in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 165 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [1999]

Contents:

1 Making an Eloquent Crazy Quilt: Theorizing the Womanist 1

1.1 Womanist Theory 1

1.2 Theorizing and Quilt Making for a Womanist Autonomy 11

1.3 Morrison's Theorizing of Narratives 21

2 Recovery of African-American Identity: Repelling the Imagery of Domination and Reclaiming Names 29

2.1 Images of Domination 29

2.2 Naming as a Manipulative Instrument 40

2.3 Transcending a Given Name 47

3 Shattering the Mirror and Patriarchal Language: The Reconstruction of African-American Values 57

3.1 The Mirror's Manipulation 57

3.2 Deconstructing Racialized and Patriarchal Language 69

3.3 Recovery of the African-American Presence 77

4 Recovering an Art Form: The Black Community and the Oral Narrative as a Matrix of Conservation for African-American Culture 89

4.1 The Lack of an Art Form 89

4.2 Collective Community Expression 103

4.3 Wandering Motherless Children 106

4.4 Conservation of Community and the Retrieval of the Silenced Voice 112

5 Circularity, Disruption, Restorations: Seeking Freedom in Diversity 121

5.1 The Broken, Enclosing and Transforming Circles 121

5.2 Revision of the Western Myth of Flight 137

5.3 The Embracement of Women and the Reconstructed Myth of Flight 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-159) and index.

ISBN:

0820439517

OCLC:

37594181