{"product_id":"love-and-narrative-form-in-jean-wyatt-9780820350608","title":"Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLove and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels\u003c\/i\u003e, Jean Wyatt explores the interaction among ideas of love, narrative innovation, and reader response in Toni Morrison's seven later novels. Love comes in a new and surprising shape in each of the later novels; for example, \u003ci\u003eLove\u003c\/i\u003e presents it as the deep friendship between little girls; in \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e it acts as a disruptive force producing deep changes in subjectivity; and in \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e it becomes something one innovates and recreates each moment--like jazz itself. Each novel's unconventional idea of love requires a new experimental narrative form. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWyatt analyzes the stylistic and structural innovations of each novel, showing how disturbances in narrative chronology, surprise endings, and gaps mirror the dislocated temporality and distorted emotional responses of the novels' troubled characters and demand that the reader situate the present-day problems of the characters in relation to a traumatic African American past. The narrative surprises and gaps require the reader to become an active participant in making meaning. And the texts' complex narrative strategies draw out the reader's convictions about love, about gender, about race--and then prompt the reader to reexamine them, so that reading becomes an active ethical dialogue between text and reader. Wyatt uses psychoanalytic concepts to analyze Morrison's narrative structures and how they work on readers. Love and Narrative Form devotes a chapter to each of Morrison's later novels: \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Wyatt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820350605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820350608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Jean Wyatt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453406589183,"sku":"9780820350608","price":82.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8785c3f7-564c-4094-b57a-841222fe56e5.jpg?v=1777300056","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-narrative-form-in-jean-wyatt-9780820350608","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}