Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Authors: Beavers, Herman
Free Preview- Positions Toni Morrison's novels within the timely framework of geocriticism and spatial studies
- Covers a wide range of Morrison's oeuvre, including Love, A Mercy, and Jazz
- Highlights not only the significance of Morrison's novels within literary studies but also her intellectual, political, and cultural influence
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- About this book
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This book examines Toni Morrison’s fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist political imaginary and conceptualize a more inclusive political imaginary in which black bodies are valued. Herman Beavers closely examines politics of scale and contentious politics in order to discern Morrison's larger intent of revealing the deep structure of power relations in black communities that will enable them to fashion counterhegemonic projects. The volume explores how Morrison stages her ruminations on the political imaginary in neighborhoods or small towns; rooms, houses or streets. Beavers argues that these spatial and domestic geographies are sites where the management of traumatic injury is integral to establishing a sense of place, proposing these “tight spaces” as sites where narratives are produced and contested; sites of inscription and erasure, utterance and silence.
- About the authors
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Herman Beavers is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-22
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Held in the Thrall: Morrison’s Southern Men and the Arrested Motion of Tight Space
Pages 25-56
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From Zero to Nowhere: Tight Space and the Topophilia of Violence
Pages 57-87
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The Housing of Hurt: The Optic of Tight Space in Jazz
Pages 89-126
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A Measure of Last Resort: Limerence and the Geometrical Shape of Community in Love
Pages 129-161
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison
- Authors
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- Herman Beavers
- Series Title
- Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-65999-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-65999-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-65998-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-88148-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 253
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
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