History and other places in Toni Morrison's fiction
2006; Routledge; Volume: 78; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00393270601020708
ISSN1651-2308
Autores Tópico(s)American and British Literature Analysis
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. See Kimberly Chabot Davis Davis, Kimberley Chabot. 2001. “‘Postmodern Blackness’: Toni Morrison's Beloved and the End of History.”. In Productive Postmodernism, Edited by: Duvall, John N. 75–92. Albany: SUNY Press. [Google Scholar] for a discussion of Beloved in relation to Hutcheon Hutcheon, Linda. 1989. The Politics of Postmodernism, London: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] and Jameson. 2. See Elizabeth Abel's Abel, Elizabeth. 1997. “Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation.”. In Female Subjects in Black and White, Edited by: Abel, Elizabeth, Moglen, Helene and Christian, Barbara. 102–132. Berkeley: U of California P. [Google Scholar] revealing footnote about the largely respectful reviews of Willis's Willis, Susan. 1990. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience, London: Routledge. 1987 [Google Scholar] book (128); note also Michele Wallace's Wallace, Michele. 1990. Invisibility Blues, London: Verso. [Google Scholar] heavy‐handed rejection of Willis's Willis, Susan. 1990. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience, London: Routledge. 1987 [Google Scholar] argument as an “odd Marxist colonization (domestication? deflowering?) of black women writers” (also quoted by Abel Abel, Elizabeth. 1997. “Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation.”. In Female Subjects in Black and White, Edited by: Abel, Elizabeth, Moglen, Helene and Christian, Barbara. 102–132. Berkeley: U of California P. [Google Scholar]) and of Willis Willis, Susan. 1990. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience, London: Routledge. 1987 [Google Scholar] herself for not being Fredric Jameson (184). 3. See George Garrett's Garrett, George. Jan. 3, 1988. “Young Fenians in Love and History.” Rev. of The Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan.. New York Times Book Review, : 1+ [Google Scholar] review of Thomas Flanagan's Tenants of Time, which praises the achievement of this novel, a “novel of history, a historical novel, then, like it or not” and goes on to outline the problems of the historical novel, threatened on one side by the success of the historical romance and on the other by magic realism and “mythopoeic historical fiction” as instanced by among others Morrison's Morrison, Toni. 1987. Beloved, New York: Knopf. [Google Scholar] Beloved. For Garrett Garrett, George. Jan. 3, 1988. “Young Fenians in Love and History.” Rev. of The Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan.. New York Times Book Review, : 1+ [Google Scholar], this new brand of fiction is typified by its evasion of Robert Frost's “old‐fashioned rigor” of factual fidelity and its adherence to contemporary values. Other than Garrett Garrett, George. Jan. 3, 1988. “Young Fenians in Love and History.” Rev. of The Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan.. New York Times Book Review, : 1+ [Google Scholar] himself, the main practitioners of the historical novel he points out are Mary Lee Settle and Shelby Foote, both Southern writers. 4. The awkwardness of the phrase has to do with the language of spatiality as something that is already there, while in fact the wars and other upheavals were just then producing new spaces. 5. Reference made to Dipesh Chakrabarty's Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2000. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton: Princeton UP. [Google Scholar] Provincializing Europe. 6. The importance of that process, particularly in the dimension of urbanization, informs Susan Willis's Willis, Susan. 1990. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience, London: Routledge. 1987 [Google Scholar] approach to black women's historical fiction in Specifying. It will be clear that my argument is indebted to Willis's Willis, Susan. 1990. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience, London: Routledge. 1987 [Google Scholar] elegant case and is meant to lend support to its socio‐historical thrust while focusing on a more thoroughgoing dialectic of space and time. 7. It is interesting to look at how the crucial historical phenomenon of the Triangle Trade and the Middle Passage is treated as the background for a strictly moral dilemma in a historical novel like Mary Johnston's Johnston, Mary. 1924. The Slave Ship, Boston: Little, Brown. [Google Scholar] 1924 novel The Slave Ship, whose subject is the troubled conscience of its Scottish captain. 8. See Chiara Spallino Spallino, Chiara. Fall 1985. “Song of Solomon: An Adventure in Structure.”. Callaloo, 8(3): 510–24. [Google Scholar] for an account of Song of Solomon as a Bildungsroman. 9. The sack is foregrounded not least by its having a color: after the bravura opening with the red silk petals on the snow under the brilliant blue sky, the text is remarkable for its paucity of words denoting colors, and each instance is carefully calculated. The greenness of the sack is like a green light for Milkman's quest, but can be explored for many other meanings. 10. David Cowart Cowart, David. Mar., 1990. “Faulkner and Joyce in Morrison's Song of Solomon.”. American Literature, 62(1): 87–100. [Google Scholar] has explored the Faulknerian connections in Song of Solomon and notes that the Faulknerian echoes in the hunt scene were noted early by various critics (89). Hunting in Morrison's Morrison, Toni. 1999. Paradise, New York: Vintage. 1997 [Google Scholar] fiction, however, plays a more complex role than that of a kind of literary marker or an “inheritance” of a Faulkner theme. As we can see in Paradise and Love, scenes of fishing and hunting in Morrison's Morrison, Toni. 2004. Love, New York: Vintage. 2003 [Google Scholar] works are male preserves which are more marked by violence than regeneration. Not so much the symbolic stage for ordeals of initiation or the meeting of culture and nature, hunting is a schema available to men for proving their manhood, and can, as in Paradise, be turned into a purge of all that threatens it. 11. The phrase I am repeating in slightly different guises, about the way that social space expands and separates, is a borrowing from Edward Said's Said, Edward. 1993. Culture and Imperialism, London: Verso. [Google Scholar] comments on Lukács Lukács, Georg. 1983. The Historical Novel, Lincoln: U of Nebraska P. 1937. Trans. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell [Google Scholar] in Culture and Imperialism (93). 12. In an analysis of 192 first novels from 1940 and 175 from 1955, a setting in the South proved to be strongly associated with a non‐contemporary time frame, opposed, in this socio‐literary space, to settings in the Northeast (Ekelund and Börjesson Ekelund, Bo G. and Börjesson, Mikael. October–December 2005. “Comparing Literary Worlds: A Geometric Data Analysis of the Fictional Universes of Two Cohorts of US Writers.”. Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, 33(5–6): 343–368. [Google Scholar] 2005).
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