Circles of sorrow, lines of struggle
Subtitle: the novels of Toni Morrison
By: Gurleen Grewal.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; African American women in literature.; African Americans in literature.
Description: Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle portrays Nobel laureate Morrison as a historiographer attempting to bridge the gap between emergent black middle-class America and its subaltern origins, between dominant America and its signifying/significant other. Her novels are seen afresh as imagining a black community while revising the project of cultural nationalism from a black feminist perspective.

Written from a postcolonial feminist perspective, this adept analysis shows that Toni Morrison, far from evading feminism, enables us to map the complex allegiances of a black feminism that is neither antimale nor bourgeois, but critical of both black and white masculist discourses of violence that it must necessarily enter, understand, and transform.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-145) and index.