Spectrality in the novels of Toni Morrison
By: Melanie Anderson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781572338586
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Ghosts in literature; Future life in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "What does it mean to follow a ghost" in Toni Morrison's fiction?; title: Spectral beginnings in The bluest eye and Sula; title: "Why not ghosts as well?" the presence of the spectral in song of solomon and tar baby; title: "What would be on the other side?" history as a spectral bridge in Beloved and Paradise; title: "The specter as possibility": ghostly narrators in Jazz and Love; title: "Slave. Free. I last": spectral returns in A mercy.