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Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels (Hardcover)
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Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels (Hardcover)
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In Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels, 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, Love presents it as the deep friendship
between little girls; in Home it acts as a disruptive force
producing deep changes in subjectivity; and in Jazz 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. Wyatt 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 ofthe 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: Beloved, Jazz, Paradise, Love, A Mercy,
Home, and God Help the Child.
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