A World of Difference: An Inter-Cultural Study of Toni Morrison's Novels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313289804)

Throughout her novels, Toni Morrison explores the complex interaction of race, class, culture, and gender. This study takes into account both Western and Black traditions to show how Morrison not only denounces the constricting patterns of the dominant culture, but also, through the reversal or subversion of Western stereotypes, harnesses the rich potential for the significance they contain.

While most recent studies of Morrison examine individual works separately, this book concentrates on particular dimensions of Morrison's fiction and explores the continuities and developments from her first to most recent novel. And while other studies generally approach Morrison from a particular critical perspective, this book instead considers the interaction of multiple determinants such as race and gender, and gives special attention to the pressure exerted by dominant cultural forms. The authors demonstrate how in contradiction to the dominant culture's ideology of unity and homogeneity, Morrison makes a case for the value of difference in a diverse society.

Author: Wendy Harding, Jacky Martin
ISBN-10: 0313289808
ISBN-13: 9780313289804
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 09/30/1994
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.63h x 6.39w x 0.84d