"Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning" boasts essays by well-known
international scholars focusing on the author's literary production
and including her very latest works--the theatrical production
"Desdemona" and her tenth and latest novel, "Home." These original
contributions are among the first scholarly analyses of these
latest additions to her oeuvre and make the volume a valuable
addition to potential readers and teachers eager to understand the
position of "Desdemona" and "Home" within the wider scope of
Morrison's career. Indeed, in Home, we find a reworking of many of
the tropes and themes that run throughout Morrison's fiction,
prompting the editors to organize the essays as they relate to
themes prevalent in "Home."
In many ways, Morrison has actually initiated paradigm shifts
that permeate the essays. They consistently reflect, in approach
and interpretation, the revolutionary change in the study of
American literature represented by Morrison's focus on the interior
lives of enslaved Africans. This collection assumes black
subjectivity, rather than argues for it, in order to reread and
revise the horror of slavery and its consequences into our time.
The analyses presented in this volume also attest to the broad
range of interdisciplinary specializations and interests in novels
that have now become classics in world literature. The essays are
divided into five sections, each entitled with a direct quotation
from "Home," and framed by two poems: Rita Dove's "The Buckeye" and
Sonia Sanchez's "Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo."
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