Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts essays by well-known
international scholars focusing on the author’s literary production and
including her very latest works―the theatrical production Desdemona and her tenth and latest novel, Home.
These original contributions are among the first scholarly analyses of
these latest additions to her oeuvre and make the volume a valuable
addition to potential readers and teachers eager to understand the
position of Desdemona and Home within the wider scope of Morrison’s career. Indeed, in Home,
we find a reworking of many of the tropes and themes that run
throughout Morrison’s fiction, prompting the editors to organize the
essays as they relate to themes prevalent in Home.
In many
ways, Morrison has actually initiated paradigm shifts that permeate the
essays. They consistently reflect, in approach and interpretation, the
revolutionary change in the study of American literature represented by
Morrison’s focus on the interior lives of enslaved Africans. This
collection assumes black subjectivity, rather than argues for it, in
order to reread and revise the horror of slavery and its consequences
into our time. The analyses presented in this volume also attest to the
broad range of interdisciplinary specializations and interests in novels
that have now become classics in world literature. The essays are
divided into five sections, each entitled with a direct quotation from Home, and framed by two poems: Rita Dove’s “The Buckeye” and Sonia Sanchez’s “Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo.”
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