Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts

by Juda Bennett

Book Overview

Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts radically intervenes in one of the most established and sacred topics in Toni Morrison scholarship, love. Moving beyond Morrison's representation of ghosts as the forgotten or occluded past, Juda Bennett uncovers how Morrison imagines the spectral sphere as always already queer, a provocation and challenge to heteronormativity--with the ghost appearing as an active participant in disruptions of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438453558
• ISBN13: 9781438453552
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"