02864nam 22005535 450 991030000000332120230810192430.03-319-65999-510.1007/978-3-319-65999-2(CKB)3840000000347610(MiAaPQ)EBC5267541(DE-He213)978-3-319-65999-2(PPN)241308690(EXLCZ)99384000000034761020180206d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierGeography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison /by Herman Beavers1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (253 pages) illustrations, tablesGeocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,2634-51883-319-65998-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.This book examines Toni Morrison’s fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist political imaginary and conceptualize a more inclusive political imaginary in which black bodies are valued. Herman Beavers closely examines politics of scale and contentious politics in order to discern Morrison's larger intent of revealing the deep structure of power relations in black communities that will enable them to fashion counterhegemonic projects. The volume explores how Morrison stages her ruminations on the political imaginary in neighborhoods or small towns; rooms, houses or streets. Beavers argues that these spatial and domestic geographies are sites where the management of traumatic injury is integral to establishing a sense of place, proposing these “tight spaces” as sites where narratives are produced and contested; sites of inscription and erasure, utterance and silence.  .Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,2634-5188AmericaLiteraturesLiterature, Modern20th centuryAfrican AmericansCultureNorth American LiteratureTwentieth-Century LiteratureAfrican American CultureAmericaLiteratures.Literature, Modern20th century.African Americans.Culture.North American Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.African American Culture.813.009355Beavers Hermanauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut975277BOOK9910300000003321Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison2220917UNINA