MARGINAL DISCOURSES IN THE WORK OF TONI MORRISON
MARGINAL DISCOURSES IN THE WORK OF TONI MORRISON

Summary/Abstract: Placing herself at the crossroads of several marginal discourses (the feminist, the racial and that of the dismembered), Toni Morrison writes about the necessity to approach our cultural and historical legacies in terms of their ambiguity and multiplicity. In her novels historical amnesia often emerges as a reminder of the wanderings of memory, multiplication of the haunting past being equated by individual filtering and choice. Drawing on so-called reliable documents, Toni Morrison portrays black experience as a challenge to the center and the tradition.

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