“Living the Dying Inside”: Writing Violence in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Defining the writing of violence in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008) means conceiving of a poetics of abandonment in a text where the act of reading must supplement the failings of language. “Buried,” violence is the repressed at the heart of trauma; it is part and parcel of memory. The text mimics th...

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Main Author: Claudine Raynaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2017-03-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/5053
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