African spiritual traditions in the novels of Toni Morrison:
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Main Author: Zauditu-Selassie, K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville University Press of Florida c2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-237) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 249 p.)
ISBN:0813033284
0813040094
9780813033280
9780813040097

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