1st Edition

Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place

By Alice Sundman Copyright 2022
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

How does Toni Morrison create and form her literary places? As one of the first studies exploring Morrison’s archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts together with her published novels, this book offers fresh insights into her creative processes. It analyses the author’s textual choices, her writerly strategies, and her process of writing, all combining in shaping her literary places. In a... Read more

Introduction

1. Morrison’s Written Places

2. Placing the Join of Beloved

3. Transforming Places in Paradise

4. Articulating Place in A Mercy

Coda

Biography

Alice Sundman is a researcher and teacher at the Department of English, Stockholm University.