Overview
- Positions Toni Morrison's novels within the timely framework of geocriticism and spatial studies
- Covers a wide range of Morrison's oeuvre, including Love, A Mercy, and Jazz
- Highlights not only the significance of Morrison's novels within literary studies but also her intellectual, political, and cultural influence
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- geography in Toni Morrison's novels
- place-making in Sula
- racialized spaces in Toni Morrison's work
- trauma in Toni Morrison's novels
- hegemony and space in Song of Solomon
- "the personal is the political" and Toni Morrison's work
- Yi-Fu Tuan’s concept of topophilia
- affect studies and Tar Baby
- black political agency in Toni Morrison's work
- gendered conflict over space in Song of Solomon
- black feminist standpoint epistemology
- intersection of race and gender conflict in Toni Morrison's work
- intersectionality in The Bluest Eye
- black women's negotiation of space and place
- Southern Men in Toni Morrison's novels
- alienation in Song of Solomon
- The Great Migration, identity, and Toni Morrison's Jazz
- Racism in the Jazz Age
- black womanhood and masculine anxiety
- politics of scale in Toni Morrison's novels
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Authors: Herman Beavers
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65999-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65998-5Published: 19 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88148-5Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65999-2Published: 06 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, African American Culture