The Aesthetics Of Toni Morrison

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The Aesthetics Of Toni Morrison

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Author : Marc C. Conner
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2010-01-06

The Aesthetics Of Toni Morrison written by Marc C. Conner and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-06 with Literary Criticism categories.

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as sagas illuminating history, race, culture, and gender politics. This gathering of eight essays by top scholars probes Morrison's novels and her growing body of nonfiction and critical work for the complex and potent aesthetic elements that have made her a major American novelist of the twentieth century. Through traditional aesthetic concepts such as the sublime, the beautiful, and the grotesque, through issues of form, narrative, and language, and through questions of affect and reader response, the nine essays in this volume bring into relief the dynamic and often overlooked range within Morrison's writing. Employing aesthetic ideas that range from the ancient Greeks to contemporary research in the black English oral tradition, The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison shows the potency of these ideas for interpreting Morrison's writing. This is a force Morrison herself has often suggested in her claims that Greek tragedy bears a striking similarity to “Afro-American communal structures.” At the same time each essay attends to the ways in which Morrison also challenges traditional aesthetic concepts, establishing the African American and female voices that are essential to her sensibility. The result is a series of readings that simultaneously expands our understanding of Morrison's work and also provokes new thinking about an aesthetic tradition that is nearly 2,500 years old. These essays offer a rich complement to the dominant approaches in Morrison scholarship by revealing aspects of her work that purely ideological approaches have obscured or about which they have remained oddly silent. Each essay focuses particularly on the relations between the aesthetic and the ethical in Morrison's writing and between the artistic production and its role in the world at large. These relations show the rich political implications that aesthetic analysis engenders. By treating both Morrison's fiction and her nonfiction, the essays reveal a mind and imagination that have long been intimately engaged with the questions and traditions of the aesthetic domain. The result is a provocative and original contribution to Morrison scholarship, and to scholarship in American letters generally.

The Aesthetics Dimensions Of Toni Morrison

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Author : Marc C. Conner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

The Aesthetics Dimensions Of Toni Morrison written by Marc C. Conner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Aesthetics in literature categories.

Ethics And Aesthetics In Toni Morrison S Fiction

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Author : Mariangela Palladino
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-01-22

Ethics And Aesthetics In Toni Morrison S Fiction written by Mariangela Palladino and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-22 with Literary Criticism categories.

Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction explores the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s fiction. Palladino’s work foregrounds ambiguity as a key feature of narrative ethics.

Toni Morrison S Late Fiction

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Author : Mariangela Palladino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

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Art Of Black Aesthetics In The Novels Of Toni Morrison

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023

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Jazz Aesthetic Form In Toni Morrison S Jazz

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Author : Mohamed Sghir Syad
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2016-04-11

Jazz Aesthetic Form In Toni Morrison S Jazz written by Mohamed Sghir Syad and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-11 with Literary Collections categories.

Scientific Essay from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, University of Nottingham (School of Canadian and American Studies), course: American Studies, language: English, abstract: This text attempts to explore Toni Morrison’s strategic negotiation between essentialism and anti-essentialism in regard to the re-appropriation of African American musical aesthetics in fiction. The text also tries to examine how Morrison’s dual-stance positioning demonstrates the conscious strategy of achieving the double goal of recovering African American and female voices as well as of critiquing hegemonic cultural logics about race and gender. To this end, I draw on some critics and musicians representing contending views regarding the cultural origins of jazz to argue how Morrison employs the music as a concurrent aesthetic/cultural metaphor for blackness and for American diversity through the re-appropriation of jazz characteristics in Jazz. As a whole, the text considers that the motivations behind Morrison’s accommodation of the two stances in her fiction are related to her strategic positioning that offers fruitful possibilities for mediating affirmations of difference and the necessity of racial, gender and cultural group politics.

Aesthetics Of Existence On Technologies Of The Other In Toni Morrison S Love

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Author : 劉玉雯
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

Aesthetics Of Existence On Technologies Of The Other In Toni Morrison S Love written by 劉玉雯 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.

The Aesthetics Of Self Reliance In Toni Morrison S Novel Sula

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Author : Gyetvai Éva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

The Aesthetics Of Self Reliance In Toni Morrison S Novel Sula written by Gyetvai Éva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with American literature categories.

Toni Morrison And Literary Tradition

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Author : Justine Baillie
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-09-26

Toni Morrison And Literary Tradition written by Justine Baillie and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.

Covering her essays, short stories and dramatic works as well as her novels, this is a comprehensive study of Morrison's place in contemporary American culture.

The Utopian Aesthetics Of Three African American Women Toni Morrison Gloria Naylor Julie Dash

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Author : Heike Raphael-Hernandez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

The Utopian Aesthetics Of Three African American Women Toni Morrison Gloria Naylor Julie Dash written by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.

This work offers a connection between the concrete utopian theory of hope by the Gennan Jewish philosopher Ernst Bloch and the literary productions of contemporary African American women writers. The study argues that these literary texts should be read as concrete utopias outlined in Bloch's major work The Principle ofHope. Bloch argues that when people become consciously aware of the dialectical tendencies in concrete utopias will they recognize the possibilities first for their own personal empowerment and then for their communities. As a result of their conscious awareness, readers will be able to perceive the visions of the texts and will begin to actively dream of becoming agents for change themselves. The study claims that most texts by contemporary African American women writers such as Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Sherley Anne Williams, Bebe Moore Campbell, and Terry McMillan provide concrete utopian visions. An application of Bloch's theory to these writers enriches a reading of their texts and demonstrates that art is the medium that will remind people of their constant, never-ending responsibility for personal agency.