Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439924310)

Toni Morrison's readers and critics typically focus more on the "what" than the "how" of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison's expressed narrative intention of providing "spaces for the reader" to help us understand the narrative strategies in her work.

Mobley's approach is as interdisciplinary, intersectional, nuanced, and complex as Morrison's. She combines textual analysis with a study of Morrison's cultural politics and narrative poetics and describes how Morrison engages with both history and the present political moment.

Informed by research in geocriticism, spatial literary studies, African American literary studies, and Black feminist studies at the intersection of poetics and cultural politics, Mobley identifies four narrative strategies that illuminate how Morrison creates such spaces in her fiction; what these spaces say about her understanding of place, race, and belonging; and how they constitute a way to read and re-read her work.

Author: Marilyn Sanders Mobley
ISBN-10: 1439924317
ISBN-13: 9781439924310
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2024
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2024