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Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrisona S Novels Paperback - 1996

by Philip Page


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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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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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  • Title Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrisona S Novels
  • Author Philip Page
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 242
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
  • Date 1996-05-01
  • ISBN 9780878058617 / 0878058613
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.06 x 0.72 in (22.86 x 15.39 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans in literature, Women and literature - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044261
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

Philip Page is professor of English at California State University at San Bernardino and author of Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction, published by University Press of Mississippi.
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