{"product_id":"toni-morrison-yvette-christians-9780823239153","title":"Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics","description":"\u003cem\u003eToni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics \u003c\/em\u003esituates Toni Morrison as \u003cstrong\u003ea writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience.\u003c\/strong\u003e In foregrounding the ethics of fiction writing, the book resists any triumphalist reading of Morrison's achievement in order to allow the meditative, unsettled, and unsettling questions that arise throughout her long labor at the nexus of language and politics, where her fiction interrogates representation itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between close reading and critical theory, \u003cem\u003eToni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the ways in which Morrison's primary engagement with language has been \u003cstrong\u003ea search for how and what language is made to communicate, and for how and what speaks in and from generation to generation.\u003c\/strong\u003e There is no easy escape from\u003cbr\u003esuch legacy, no escape into a pure language free of the burdens of racialized agendas. Rather, there is the example of Morrison's commitment to writerly, which is to say readerly, wakefulness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a time when sustained study devoted to single authors has become rare, this book will be \u003cstrong\u003ean invaluable resource for readers, scholars, and teachers\u003c\/strong\u003e of Morrison's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yvette Christiansë\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823239152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823239153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2013","brand":"Yvette Christiansë","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120358387967,"sku":"9780823239153","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_43dfb51a-2425-43c0-8600-22c8b188248e.jpg?v=1687413900","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/toni-morrison-yvette-christians-9780823239153","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}