Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels by Jean Wyatt

Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels by Jean Wyatt

Explores the interaction among ideas of love, narrative innovation, and reader response in Toni Morrison's seven later novels. Jean Wyatt analyses 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.

Jean Wyatt’s Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels is an absolutely brilliant study of Morrison’s artistry in her later novelsNot only does it convincingly establish the primacy of love as a thematic concern in Morrison’s work, but it traces, through the aid of lucid explanations of theory, the evolving conceptions of love that Morrison represents through her exploration of literary, narrative form. Marrying her reading of form to psychoanalytic theory and investigations of the work done by Morrison’s texts in structuring the reader’s responses to the ethics of the novels, Wyatt produces an impressive study that is sure to become a definitive statement on Morrison’s work.

-- Sheldon George * author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity *

JEAN WYATT is a professor of English at Occidental College. She is the author of Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism. Recently, she has written articles on Louise Erdrich’s The Painted Drum and Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.

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ISBN 13	9780820350868
ISBN 10	0820350869
Title	Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels
Author	Jean Wyatt
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2017-03-01
Number of pages	246
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