Title: Circles of sorrow, lines of struggle
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, African American women in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, History, General, American, LITERARY CRITICISM, American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Noirs américains dans la littérature
Places: United States
People: Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3563.O8749 Z655 1998