Toni Morrison (1931-2019): Reaching toward the Ineffable by Claudine Raynaud

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

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Archival Characters: Incorporating History in Thomas Pynchon’s V. and Toni Morrison’s Beloved by LeAnn Stevens-Larré

“…Drawing from the fundamental theories of archives, both literal and metaphorical, this article defines the concept of “archival character,” presenting Thomas Pynchon’s V. and Toni Morrison’s Beloved as primary examples. These characters are drawn as sites of memory where the disparate stories of the dispossessed find embodiment and thus the possibility of narrative reconstruction.…”
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Longe do Paraíso: Jazz , de Toni Morrison, e Ponciá Vicêncio , de Conceição Evaristo by Ângela Maria Dias

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Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire by Vanessa Sylvanise

“…Toni Morrison’s work is dark and strong. Unearthing afro-am ericain community’s pains, inherited from history, her work contains this famous “Inquiétante étrangeté” symptomatic of the “fantastic” literary’s genre. …”
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Pós-colonialidade, pós-escravismo, bioficção e con(tra)temporaneidade by Denise Carrascosa

“…This critical essay promotes a connection between the contemporary concept from the literary theory field named “biofiction”, the post-colonial theory and the issue of Africa n - diasporic subjetivization, from the Brazilian historical experience and intellectual possibility of speech, crisscrossed with a symptomatic study of the last novels written by Toni Morrison, Home (2012), and Jamaica Kincaid, See now then ( 2013), as well as of the novel A question of power (1970) by Bessie Head. …”
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The Dweller on the Threshold: Whiteness, the Family and the End of Classical Cinema by Conall Cash

“…Drawing on accounts of the invisibility and dehistoricisation entailed in whiteness in the work of Sara Ahmed, Jacques Derrida, Toni Morrison and Frank B. Wilderson III, the article considers how, in these films, the protection of the white family reveals its mythical status as an ideally ahistorical unit of civilisation. …”
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Monsters and Heroes: The Ironies of Black Subjectivity in Stephen Crane’s The Monster and Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground by Joseph L. Lewis

“…Cette analyse associe le concept d’africanismes américains élaboré par Toni Morrison à celui d’ironie discursive proposé par Clyde Taylor pour examiner comment la présence symbolique du monstre apparaît dans le roman court de Stephen Crane intitulé The Monster et comment il réapparait sous une forme différente dans celui de Richard Wright intitulé The Man Who Lived Underground. …”
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