Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison

The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Geneva Cobb Moore explores how Morrison uses parody and pastiche, semiotics and metaphors, and allegory to portray black life in the United States, teaching untaught history to liberate Americans.

In this short and accessible book, originally published as part of Moore's Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature, she covers each of Morrison's novels, from The Bluest Eye to Beloved to God Help the Child. With a new introduction and added coverage of Morrison's final book, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Bodily Evidence is essential reading for scholars, students, and readers of Morrison's novels.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Moore, Geneva Cobb
Published: 04/30/2020
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781643361000
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.28d