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TONI MORRISON AND THE IDEA OF AFRICA By La Vinia Delois Jennings - Hardcover VG+
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- ISBN-10
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- Book Title
- Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- ISBN
- 9780521885041
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
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- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
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- Topic
- American / African American, American / General
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- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
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Toni Morrison's fiction has been read as a contribution to and critique of Western civilization and Christianity. La Vinia Jennings reveals the fundamental role African traditional religious symbols play in her work. Based on extensive research into West African religions and philosophy, Jennings uncovers and interprets the African themes, images and cultural resonances in Morrison's fiction. She shows how symbols brought to the Americas by West African slaves are used by Morrison in her landscapes, interior spaces, and the bodies of her characters. Jennings's analysis of these symbols shows how a West African collective worldview informs both Morrison's work, and contemporary African-American life and culture. This important contribution to Morrison studies will be of great interest to scholars of African-American literature.
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Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521885043
ISBN-13
9780521885041
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, American / General
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
260 Pages
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Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
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Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.O8749 Z7 2008
Reviews
"...research on Africa and African heritage in Morrison's fiction is excellent...Recommended." - J. M. Wood, Choice, "...research on Africa and African heritage in Morrison's fiction is excellent...Recommended." <br/< - J. M. Wood, Choice, "Jennings is adept at portraying African elements in all their rich complexity and demonstrating their function in Morrison's novels without any sense of reductiveness." <br/<American Literary Scholarship, Jerome Klinkowitz, University of Northern Iowa, "Jennings is adept at portraying African elements in all their rich complexity and demonstrating their function in Morrison's novels without any sense of reductiveness." American Literary Scholarship, Jerome Klinkowitz, University of Northern Iowa
Table of Content
1. Introduction: finding the elusive but identifiable blackness within the culture out of which Toni Morrison writes; 2. Kongo's Yowa and Dahomey's Vodun: the survival of West African traditional cosmologies in African America; 3. Bandoki: witches, ambivalent power, and the fusion of good and evil; 4. Kanda: living elders, the ancestral presence, and the ancestor as foundation; 5. Banganga: the specialists-medicine (wo)men and priest(esse)s; 6. Identifiable blackness: Toni Morrison's literary canon at the Western crossroads; Works cited; Index.
Copyright Date
2008
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Dewey Edition
22
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