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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453108803321

Titolo

Contested boundaries : new critical essays on the fiction of Toni Morrison / / edited by Maxine L. Montgomery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-5331-3

Edizione

[1.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MontgomeryMaxine L

Disciplina

169

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

part I. 'Are you afraid?' : merciful haunting in a new world setting -- part II. 'A slave by choice' : re-reading the (neo) slave narrative -- part III. 'To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal' : memory, trauma, and maternal loss -- part Ivolume 'It was not a grace; it was a mercy' : spirituality in the Americas -- part volume 'This land is our home ... but I am exile here' : alternative geographies.

Sommario/riassunto

Contested Boundaries aims to map the space between A Mercy, Toni Morrisonas ninth and arguably most enigmatic novel, and the fiction comprising the authoras multiple-text canon. The volume accomplishes this through the inclusion of eight original essays representing a range of critical approaches that trouble narrative boundaries demarcating the novels included in Morrisonas evolving opus, with A Mercy serving as a locus for discussion of her re-figuration of concerns central to her narrative project. Issues relevant to the conflicted mother-child relationship, the haunting legacy of slavery, the black female body as a site of trauma, the thorny quest for an idealized home, the perilous transatlantic journey, the demands associated with love, and, yes, the desire for mercy recur, but they do so with a difference, a MorrisonianA twist that demands close intellectual scrutiny. Essays included in this volume are invested in a persistent scholarly investigation of this narrative and rhetorical play. - - The publication of A Mercy represents a climactic moment in Morrisonas evolving political consciousness, her fictional geography, and, consequently, a shift in the margins marking her multiple-text



universe. The complicated markers of difference figuring in RecitatifA and continuing with Paradise and Love culminate in the authoras ninth work of fiction. This volume ventures to chart that change, not for the sake of encoding it, but in an effort to open up new ways of interrogating her writing. - -

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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004378131507536

Autore

Gardner, Richard N.

Titolo

Mission: Italy : gli anni di piombo raccontati dall'ambasciatore americano a Roma : 1977-1981 / Richard N. Gardner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Mondadori, 2004

ISBN

8804526696

Descrizione fisica

444 p., [4] carte di tav. : ill. ; 23 cm

Collana

Le scie

Altri autori (Persone)

Piccato, Aldo

Disciplina

945.0927

Soggetti

Italia 1977-1981 Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Traduzione di Aldo Piccato