
Dangerous Freedom
Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels
Philip Page(Author)
University Press of Mississippi
Published on 30. May 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-0-87805-861-7 (ISBN)
Description
The novels of Toni Morrison depict a disjointed culture striving to coalesce in a racialized society. No other contemporary writer conveys this "double consciousness" of African American life so faithfully. As her characters struggle to negotiate meaningful roles and identities, and as they confront the inescapable issue of division, her novels are permeated with motifs of fragmentation. This divided entity is a theme repeated throughout Morrison's fiction. Operating on many levels, this plurality-in-unity affects narrators, chronologies, individuals, couples, families, neighborhoods, races. Philip Page's critical interpretation of Morrison's first six novels-Sula, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Jazz, and Tar Baby-places her fiction in the forefront of American culture, African American culture and contemporary thought. Her fiction has the power to expand the souls of all readers by taking them into the recesses of other souls-in-process, by requiring them to work the traumas and dilemmas those other souls endure, and by challenging them to know, accept, and keep open their own dangerous freedom.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jackson
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87805-861-7 (9780878058617)
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Philip Page is professor of English at California State University at San Bernardino and author of Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels and Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction, both published by University Press of Mississippi.