Racialized Beauty: The Construction of Racialized-Gendered Identities in the Works of Toni Morrison
The aim of this essay is to discuss and thus analyze the construction of racialized-gendered identities in the novels of Toni Morrison. Following this line of thought, this essay delves into a discussion on the Western aesthetic imposition of white ...
Beatrice Melodia Festa
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A tropological discussion on Toni Morrison's The Buest Eye: from metaphor to irony [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.The Bluest Eye, da escritora americana Toni Morrison, foi publicado em 1970 e serve
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Literature as Prophecy: Toni Morrison as Prophetic Writer
From fourteenth century medieval literature to contemporary American and African American literature, researchers have singled out and analyzed writing from every genre that is prophetic in nature, predicting or warning about events, both revolutionary ...
Watson, Khalilah Tyri
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Mulheres negras em diáspora: A sororidade nas obras de Toni Morrison
Mulheres negras há muito são marginalizadas do cânone literário. Escrevivências de mulheres em diáspora estão redefinindo as tradições literárias e evidenciando questões de raça, classe e gênero à frente das discussões. Toni Morrison, uma das escritoras
Natalia Fontes de Oliveira
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Building a Better Place: Utopianism and the Revision of Community in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
This article examines the role of utopianism in Toni Morrison’s 1997 novel Paradise“. It argues that, by juxtaposing the all-black town of Ruby with a group of women living in a nearby convent, Morrison revises traditional views of what constitutes
Verena Harz
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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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Raccontare storie per costruire storia: la vicenda della schiavitù nella narrativa di Toni Morrison
In her essay, Telling stories to create history: slavery in Toni Morrison’s fiction, Itala Vivan analyzes the fictional work of the African American writer Toni Morrison and focuses especially on Beloved (1987) and A Mercy (2008), both stories ...
Itala Vivan
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Voix rebelle(s) : minoration / re-création / révolution dans quatre romans de Toni Morrison
Morrison (Toni) Revolution implies movement which is at the heart of Toni Morrison’s work. According to her, writing belongs to the realms of creation and politics.
Marlène Barroso-Fontanel
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Umieć sobie wybaczyć. Widmontologiczne ujęcie Umiłowanej Toni Morrison
Przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu jest powieść Umiłowana autorstwa Toni Morrison oraz odczytanie jej z perspektywy widmontologicznej. Umiłowana jest powieścią wpisującą się w dyskurs dotyczący pamięci w literaturze ze względu na swoją retrospektywną ...
Jan Moryń
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Slow Death and Key Workers: The Ordinary Crisis of Waste Work During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Short Abstract This article examines the experiences of waste workers in Glasgow during the COVID‐19 pandemic to show how the everyday operations of the UK waste industry push bodies and infrastructures towards collapse. Drawing on interviews with waste workers, and Lauren Berlant's concepts of ‘slow death’ and the ‘crisis ordinary’, it argues that ...
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