Foreword: Too many, too quiet, too long; or, "Anything is better than the silence" -- Remembering is not forgetting; or, History is in the texts of it [the form of Beloved] -- Tragedy and its props; or, History is in the things of it [the craft of Beloved] -- Literary memory and the amnesiac nation; or, "The rest is weather" [object lesson, I] -- Bodies [sic] matter; or, "Certainly no clamor for a kiss" [object lesson, II] -- The powers of intertextuality, the spectre of reparations; or, Three tragedies and a critique of the American slave sate [the object of Beloved] -- Afterword: First things, lost things; or, The purloined name and the necessity of (postcolonial) failure -- Coda: Impossible things; or, "I've had enough of shitty news".
Summary:
"Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison's Beloved: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy-a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a "novel-tragedy" (Kliger)-and as a novel of objects"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge research in American literature and culture
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