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Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a
writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized,
engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore
American, experience. 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.
Moving between close reading and critical theory, Toni Morrison: An
Ethical Poetics reveals the ways in which Morrison's primary
engagement with language has been a search for how and what
language is made to communicate, and for how and what speaks in and
from generation to generation. There is no easy escape from
such 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.
At a time when sustained study devoted to single authors has become
rare, this book will be an invaluable resource for readers,
scholars, and teachers of Morrison's work.
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical
legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the
cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book
seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among
different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of
borders and ethnic identities. This collection of essays has three
major goals: first, to foreground shared themes and strategies in
the literary productions of women of Africana and Latina/o descent;
second, to highlight the importance of the arts for community
activism within shared diasporic spaces; and third, to illustrate
the potential of artistic and activist collaborations among women
from both groups across disciplinary, political, national, and
ethnic divides. Dialogues across Diasporas is divided into three
sections. The first section provides a theoretical overview of
diasporic migrations, politics, and identities. It argues that
diverse diasporas can unite around shared political and cultural
experiences such as converting contested spaces into communities
and resisting rhetorics of exclusion. The second section
demonstrates the diverse ways in which migratory women and
daughters of the diaspora frame their histories, lived experiences,
and different forms of knowledge via poetry, short stories,
academic essays, and other art forms. The third section focuses on
women's activism, suggesting opportunities for collaboration among
and between diverse diasporic communities.
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical
legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the
cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book
seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among
different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of
borders and ethnic identities. This collection of essays has three
major goals: first, to foreground shared themes and strategies in
the literary productions of women of Africana and Latina/o descent;
second, to highlight the importance of the arts for community
activism within shared diasporic spaces; and third, to illustrate
the potential of artistic and activist collaborations among women
from both groups across disciplinary, political, national, and
ethnic divides. Dialogues across Diasporas is divided into three
sections. The first section provides a theoretical overview of
diasporic migrations, politics, and identities. It argues that
diverse diasporas can unite around shared political and cultural
experiences such as converting contested spaces into communities
and resisting rhetorics of exclusion. The second section
demonstrates the diverse ways in which migratory women and
daughters of the diaspora frame their histories, lived experiences,
and different forms of knowledge via poetry, short stories,
academic essays, and other art forms. The third section focuses on
women s activism, suggesting opportunities for collaboration among
and between diverse diasporic communities."
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