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“Anaconda Love” in the Novels of Toni Morrison
… is an exploration of a common theme within Toni Morrison’s novels: a form of love that is so intense it becomes harmful. This harmful form of love is referred to as “anaconda love”. The anaconda attempts to capture, control, constrict and ultimately consume the recipient of its love. This …
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The Village Mother in Selected Works of Toni Morrison
… Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon to discuss Toni Morrison's presentation of women as biological and surrogate mothers and the relationships those mothers have to their children. These mother-child relationships take place in African American "villages" and each chapter displays the …
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Wading into semantic depths : a poststructuralist approach to Toni Morrison's Beloved
Fil: Cicero, Karina R. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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“White ink”: the body and écriture féminine in Toni Morrison's Beloved
<p>In her novel Beloved, Morrison seeks to tell a story that is difficult to tell using conventional literary techniques: the story of freed, forgotten former slaves. Through her use of techniques such as Cixou's ecriture feminine, as well as her own literary devices, including ideas of …
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Seeking Freedom through Self-Love in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved
Toni Morrison chose to revisit the neo-slave narrative genre twenty-five years after the publication of Beloved with A Mercy in 2008. With these two texts, Morrison offers her readers one story that shows the descent into slavery and one that shows progression towards freedom. The purpose of this …
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Images of Change: Language and Power in the Works of Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison has identified, as one of her projects, the question of what societal forces make intellectual domination possible, and how this domination can be transformed into personal revelation and choice. Many of her fictional characters undergo a transformation from intellectual domination to …
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Identity as ethical responsibility: A manifesto for social change in Toni Morrison's fiction
Reading Morrison’s fiction at the hand of Bakhtin and Levinas, as well as considering her own non-fiction, led to the conclusion that sufficient evidence exists to argue Morrison’s novels present identity as ethical responsibility that can advocate for a manifesto for positive social change. …
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The Search for Cultural Identity: An Exploration of the Works of Toni Morrison
Many of Toni Morrison's African-American characters attempt to change their circumstances either by embracing the white dominant culture that surrounds them or by denying it. In this thesis I explore several ways in which the characters do just that-either embrace or deny the white culture's right …
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True and ancient properties: naming and spirits in the novels of Toni Morrison
… to their ancestry by the institution of slavery. Toni Morrison, then, shares excellent company as her work can be counted among the best of the genre. Her five novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Beloved share the common theme of the search for self-actualization. In each …
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Be loved from the other side: Amy Denver's influence in Toni Morrison's Beloved
… who helped deliver Sethe's youngest child in Toni Morrison's Beloved, while often dismissed by the scholars of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, deserves more attention. Dismissing the importance of Amy Denver's narrative in the novel presents a danger; the opening epigraph of Beloved, in …
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The civil rights movement in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"
Although Toni Morrison situates all of her novels in a specific place and time, historical context is especially relevant in Song of Solomon (1977). However, scholars typically examine Milkman's quest for his family history without addressing the Civil Rights era in which the main part of the …
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Traumatic and Healing Memory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
… analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, with a focus on individual as well as collective memory work in historically marginalized indigenous and African-American communities, respectively. This represents a critical study of how the novels invoke …
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Multiply Voiced, Multiply Heard: Double-Voiced Discourse in Toni Morrison, Maryse Conde, and Nuruddin Farah
This dissertation examines the imaginative ways in which three postcolonial writers overcome a fractured collective past by creating a double-voiced discourse narrative framework that allows them to envision a reality that might-have-been while acknowledging the presence of dominant discourses that …
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"""Winged, but grounded"": A contextual study of the fiction of Toni Morrison and Gayl Jones"
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