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1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index. |
| Contents |
I's got the blues : Malochia, magic, and the descent into madness in The bluest eye -- Always: the living ancestor and the testimony of Will in Sula -- I've got a home in date rock: ritual and the construction of family history in Song of Solomon -- Dancing with trees and dreaming of yellow dresses: the dilemma of Jadine in Tar baby -- In(her)iting the divine: (consola)tions, sacred (convent)ions, and mediations of the spiritual in-between in Paradise -- Living with the dead: memory and ancestral presence in Beloved -- Tracing Wild's child Joe and tracking the hunter: an examination of the Órísá Ochossi in Jazz -- If I'd a knowed more, I would a loved more: Toni Morrison's Love and spiritual authorship. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. K. Zauditu-Selassie delves deeply into African spiritual traditions, clearly explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison's novels. |
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Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Morrison, Toni -- Spirtualistic interpretations.
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Morrison, Toni -- Knowledge -- Africa.
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Morrison, Toni.
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Morrison, Toni -- Quellen und Vorbilder.
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Morrison, Toni.
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American literature -- African influences.
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Yoruba (African people) in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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Spirituality in literature.
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Africa -- In literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Roman.
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Religion.
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Yoruba.
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Afrika <Motiv>.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zauditu-Selassie, K. African spiritual traditions in the novels of Toni Morrison. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2009 9780813033280 (DLC) 2008040296 (OCoLC)256532887 |
| ISBN |
9780813040097 (electronic bk.) |
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0813040094 (electronic bk.) |
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