1st Edition
Toni Morrison and the New Black Reading God Help the Child
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Passing as the Old Black
2 Passing as the New Black
3 Oreotizing the New Black
4 The New Black Melancholy
Conclusion: Apostrophe in God Help the Child
Bibliography
Index
Biography
In his detailed, textured analysis, Jaleel Akhtar assesses God Help the Child as
Toni Morrison’s articulation of “new black” identities as fluid, plastic and evolving
from both Harlem Renaissance conceptualizations of the “New Negro” and from
the post-civil rights era
"In his detailed, textured analysis, Jaleel Akhtar assesses God Help the Child as Toni Morrison’s articulation of ‘new black’ identities as fluid, plastic and evolving from both Harlem Renaissance conceptualizations of the ‘New Negro’ and from the post-civil rights era…Akhtar’s analysis will prove to be a resource for future debate. The awareness of Morrison’s body of work, fiction, and non-fiction, leads to some perceptive and insightful extrapolations that will encourage further, enriched debate on the ‘new black.’" Yasmin Begum, Contemporary Women's Writing
