Introduction. Place, African American displacement, and Toni Morrison -- Space and place in Morrison criticism -- Exploring textual places -- Text and avant-texte -- Selection of novels -- Outline -- Morrison's written places. Morrisonian geographies -- Placial moments in Morrison's oeuvre -- Placing the join of Beloved. "This the place I am" : the house and the haunting -- "All of it is now it is always now" : the place of the (un)spoken -- "The rest is weather" : the place of the disappearance -- Transforming places in Paradise. "All around her were closed doors" : Ruby and the urge for stasis -- "The sky was behaving like a showgirl" : changing landscapes -- "How the stories rose in that place" : the fluidity of the convent -- "In ocean harsh a woman black as firewood is singing" : Paradise transformed -- Articulating place in A Mercy. "[T]urtles had a life span longer than towns" : traversing the landscape -- "You and I, this land is our home" : knowing place -- "What a man leaves behind is what a man is" : erecting a monument -- "These words cover the floor" : writing the house.
Summary:
"As one of the first studies exploring Morrison's archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts together with her published novels, this book offers fresh insights into her creative processes. It analyses the author's textual choices, her writerly strategies, and her process of writing, all combining in shaping her literary places"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge research in American literature and culture
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