Bodily Evidence
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Bodily Evidence

Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison

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Bodily Evidence

Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison

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The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Geneva Cobb Moore explores how Morrison uses parody and pastiche, semiotics and metaphors, and allegory to portray black life in the United States, teaching untaught history to liberate Americans.

In this short and accessible book, originally published as part of Moore's Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature, she covers each of Morrison's novels, from The Bluest Eye to Beloved to God Help the Child. With a new introduction and added coverage of Morrison's final book, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Bodily Evidence is essential reading for scholars, students, and readers of Morrison's novels.

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Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781643361017
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Bodily Evidence
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Toni Morrison’s Demonic Parody of Racism and Slavery
  10. The Bluest Eye: Jim Crow America and the Cultural Womb of Stillbirth
  11. Sula: The Bottom as Dispossessed Maternal Womb
  12. Song of Solomon: Paternal Law versus the Maternal Spirit of Sacrifice
  13. Beloved: The African American Holocaust of American Slavery
  14. Paradise: Utopia and Dystopia in the All-Negro Community
  15. Tar Baby, Jazz, Love, and A Mercy: The Rejection/Absence of a Loving Maternal Force
  16. Home
  17. God Help the Child
  18. Afterword: Toni Morrison, 1931–2019
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index