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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS AND RACE IN THE NOVELS OF TONI MORRISO IBD

JENNIFER LEE JORDAN HEINERT
ROUTLEDGE
01 / 2011
9780415888523
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Sinopsis

This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni MorrisonâÇÖs novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved.áHeinert argues how MorrisonâÇÖs novels revise conventional generic forms such as bildungsroman, folktales, slave narratives, and the formal realism of the novel itself. This study goes beyond formalist analyses to show how these revisions expose the relationship between race, conventional generic forms, and the dominant culture. MorrisonâÇÖs revisions critique the conventional roles of African Americans as subjects of and in the genre of the novel, and (re)write roles which instead privilege their subjectivity.áThis study provides readers with new ways of understanding MorrisonâÇÖs novels. Whereas critics often fault Morrison for breaking with traditional forms and resisting resolution in her novels, this analysis show how MorrisonâÇÖs revisions shift the narrative truth of the novel from its representation in conventional forms to its interpretation by the readers, who are responsible for constructing their own resolution or version of narrative truth. These revisions expose how the dominant culture has privileged specific forms of narration, in turn, these forms privilege the values of the dominant culture. MorrisonâÇÖs novels attempt to undermine this privilege and rewrite the canon of American literature.

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