1st Edition
Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
By Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert
Copyright 2009
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye , Tar Baby , Jazz , and Beloved . Heinert argues how Morrison’s novels revise conventional generic forms such as bildungsroman, folktales, slave narratives, and the formal realism of the novel itself. This study goes beyond formalist analyses to show how these revisions expose... Read more
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Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Situating Morrison in (African-)American Literary Criticism
Chapter Two: Novel of "Education": Bildungsroman and The Bluest Eye
Chapter Three: (Re)Defining Race: Folktale and Stereotypes in Tar Baby
Chapter Four: Signifying on the Novel: Conventions and Race in Morrison’s Jazz
Chapter Five: "Re-membering" Race: Realism and "Truth" in Beloved
Chapter Six: "How lovely it is, this thing we have done—together"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Jennifer Heinert teaches at the University of Wisconsin – Rock County campus and her research interests include Narrative and Genre Studies, Multicultural Literature, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
