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050	0	4	_aPS3563 _b.S643 2013
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aAnderson, Melanie. _e1
245	1	0	_aSpectrality in the novels of Toni MorrisonMelanie Anderson.
250			_afirst edition.
260			_aKnoxville : _bUniversity of Tennessee Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource.
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: "What does it mean to follow a ghost" in Toni Morrison's fiction? -- _tSpectral beginnings in The bluest eye and Sula -- _t"Why not ghosts as well?" the presence of the spectral in song of solomon and tar baby -- _t"What would be on the other side?" history as a spectral bridge in Beloved and Paradise -- _t"The specter as possibility": ghostly narrators in Jazz and Love -- _t"Slave. Free. I last": spectral returns in A mercy.
520	0		_aAt first glance, Beloved would appear to be the only "ghost story" among Toni Morrison's nine novels, but as this provocative new study shows, spectral presences and places abound in the celebrated author's fiction. Melanie R. Anderson explores how Morrison uses specters to bring the traumas of African American life to the forefront, highlighting histories and experiences, both cultural and personal, that society at large too frequently ignores. Working against the background of magical realism, while simultaneously expanding notions of the supernatural within American and African American writing, Morrison peoples her novels with what Anderson identifies as two distinctive types of ghosts: spectral figures and social ghosts. Deconstructing Western binaries, Morrison uses the spectral to indicate power through its transcendence of corporality, temporality, and explication, and she employs the ghostly as a metaphor of erasure for living characters who are marginalized and haunt the edges of their communities. The interaction of these social ghosts with the spectral presences functions as a transformative healing process that draws the marginalized figure out of the shadows and creates links across ruptures between generations and between past and present, life and death. This book examines how these relationships become increasingly more prominent in the novelist's canon-from their beginnings in The Bluest Eye and Sula, to their flowering in the trilogy that comprises Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise, and onward into A Mercy. An important contribution to the understanding of one of America's premier fiction writers, Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison demonstrates how the Nobel laureate's powerful and challenging works give presence to the invisible, voice to the previously silenced, and agency to the oppressed outsiders who are refused a space in which to narrate their stories.
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600	1	0	_aMorrison, Toni _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aGhosts in literature.
650		0	_aFuture life in literature.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=533190&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell