Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics

by Yvette Christians and Yvette Christiansë

Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience. In foregrounding the ethics of fiction writing, the book resists any triumphalist reading of Morrison's achievement in order to allow the meditative, unsettled, and unsettling questions that arise throughout her long labor at the nexus of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823239160
• ISBN13: 9780823239160
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"