African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison [electronic resource] /
Zauditu-Selassie, K.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2009.
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. The result is a comprehensive, tour-de-force critical investigation of such works as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, Beloved , and Jazz .
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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. The result is a comprehensive, tour-de-force critical investigation of such works as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, Beloved , and Jazz .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-237) and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Morrison, Toni
Morrison, Toni
Morrison, Toni
Spirituality in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Yoruba (African people) in literature.
American literature