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Religious Nationalisms in African Contexts
Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 286-292, June 2026.
Katharina Wilkens
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"Shuttles in the rocking loom of history": dislocation in Toni Morrison's fiction [PDF]
This thesis examines the trope of 'dislocation' within the later novels of Toni Morrison, identifying it as central to her representation ot African American history and experience.
Terry, Jennifer Ann
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, 1995 The novels of Toni Morrison, the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, are powerful not just because of their content - her themes include infanticide, rape, child abuse, murder and sexual jealousy - but because of their innovative form and language. This succinct critical introduction to her work seeks to make her novels
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The Theme of the Shattered Self in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and A Mercy
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2014 Throughout her fiction Toni Morrison has frequently dealt with traumatized individuals, who usually belong to minority groups, especially Blacks. The fragmentation of the self and the search for identity are pervasive themes of her novels.
Manuela López Ramírez
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Naming and a Black Woman's Aesthetic
Names, 1993 Unlike that of most modern and post-modern writers, the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker lacks “meaningful names.” This is contrary to expectations; we would expect names, like those in the fiction of Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, and Toni ...
Frederick M. Burelbach
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Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and United States book clubs
Acta Neophilologica, 2004 This essay focuses on the influence of commercial book clubs in the United States. It will examine the country's oldest commercial book club, the Book-of-the-Month Club (BOMC), Oprah's Book Club (OBC), which bears the name of its founder, television ...
Mark Madigan
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In principio era il suono. La lingua perduta delle madri nella narrativa di Toni Morrison
Iperstoria, 2016 The essay aims to analyze Toni Morrison’s daring linguistic experimentation through her narrative use of sound, accurately chosen as a strategy to explore and possibly re-discuss, the concepts of race and gender at the core of her narratives.
Chiara Spallino
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Eus sobre a Casa Racial: (re)conhecendo e (re)modelando os grilhões raciais
IntellèctusNeste artigo, fruto da minha pesquisa de mestrado, problematizo a construção e a permanência da noção de “casa racial” por meio da metáfora do “home” de Toni Morrison (2020), nas obras Ponciá Vicêncio de Conceição Evaristo (2017) e Maréia de Miriam ...
Janaina de Lima Ferreira
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Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 2015 Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir a relação da tradução com o comentário. Para tanto, buscamos fazer uma reflexão sobre a importância do uso de paratextos (Genette, 2009), tais como o prefácio, na tradução do conto “Recitatif” (1983), da escritora ...
Luciana De Mesquita Silva
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The Afro-American Tradition in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1989 This article is a critical study of Beloved, Toni Morrison's latest novel, and winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Price. In it, I penetrate the linguistic wealth and the stylistic variety of the novel, trying to explore the Afroamerican tradition that pervades ...
Durán Giménez-Rico, Isabel
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