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Objects and intertexts in Toni Morrison's Beloved : the case for reparations
- Title
- Objects and intertexts in Toni Morrison's Beloved : the case for reparations / Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem.
- Author
- Ruprecht Fadem, Maureen E.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xxxii, 247 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison's Beloved: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy-a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a "novel-tragedy" (Kliger)-and as a novel of objects"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge research in American literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Routledge research in American literature and culture.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword: Too many, too quiet, too long; or, "Anything is better than the silence" -- Remembering is not forgetting; or, History is in the texts of it [the form of Beloved] -- Tragedy and its props; or, History is in the things of it [the craft of Beloved] -- Literary memory and the amnesiac nation; or, "The rest is weather" [object lesson, I] -- Bodies [sic] matter; or, "Certainly no clamor for a kiss" [object lesson, II] -- The powers of intertextuality, the spectre of reparations; or, Three tragedies and a critique of the American slave sate [the object of Beloved] -- Afterword: First things, lost things; or, The purloined name and the necessity of (postcolonial) failure -- Coda: Impossible things; or, "I've had enough of shitty news".
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-592
- ISBN
- 9780367416195
- 0367416190
- LCCN
- 2020026576
- OCLC
- 1155539091
- Author
- Ruprecht Fadem, Maureen E., author.
- Title
- Objects and intertexts in Toni Morrison's Beloved : the case for reparations / Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge research in American literature and cultureRoutledge research in American literature and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: CUNY/KINGSBOROUGH & DREW UNIV.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-592