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The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature,
Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the
world. In Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in
the Novels of Toni Morrison, Geneva Cobb Moore explores how
Morrison captures and mirrors the tragedy experienced by and
transformation of African Americans, using parody and pastiche,
semiotics and metaphors, and allegory to portray black life in the
United States, teaching untaught history to liberate Americans.In
this short and accessible book, originally published as part of
Moore's Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's
Literature, she covers each of Morrison's novels, from The Bluest
Eye to Beloved to God Help the Child. With a new introduction and
added coverage of Morrison's final book, The Source of Self-Regard:
Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Bodily Evidence will be
essential reading for scholars, students, and readers of Morrison's
novels.
Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism,
and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American
Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black
experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of
nine female writers across several centuries. Moore traces black
women writers' creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power
in literature from the colonial era work of Phillis Wheatley to the
postmodern work of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.
Through their characters Moore shows how these writers re-create
the identity of black women and challenge existing rules shaping
their subordinate status and behavior. Drawing on feminist,
psychoanalytic, and other social science theory, Moore examines the
maternal iconography and counter-hegemonic narratives by which
these writers responded to oppressive conventions of race, gender,
and authority. Moore grounds her account in studies of Phillis
Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten Grimke, Jessie Fauset,
Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. All these authors, she
contends, wrote against invisibility and powerlessness by
developing and cultivating a personal voice and an individual story
of vulnerability, nurturing capacity, and agency that confounded
prevailing notions of race and gender and called into question
moral reform. In these nine writers' construction of feminine
images-real and symbolic-Moore finds a shared sense of the
historically significant role of black women in the liberation
struggle during slavery, the Jim Crow period, and beyond.
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