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Kim, Kwang Soon.

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The location of black identity in Toni Morrison's fiction.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The location of black identity in Toni Morrison's fiction./
Author:	Kim, Kwang Soon.
Description:	217 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-09, Section: A, page: 3274.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-09A.
Subject:	African American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3413899
ISBN:	9781124155159

The location of black identity in Toni Morrison's fiction.
Kim, Kwang Soon.

The location of black identity in Toni Morrison's fiction. - 217 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-09, Section: A, page: 3274.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2010.

This project traces Morrison's critique of the emancipatory visions that penetrate the era of the Black Power Movement and investigates the postcolonial vision of black identity that Morrison attempts to shape in her first five novels: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Beloved. During the last five decades, critics have noted the theme of spiritual decolonization of black people in Morrison's fiction. However, they have primarily focused on how black people have been spiritually and physically victimized throughout the oppressive black history in the United States. And, those critics have more or less characterized Morrison as a nativist writer who sees the recovery of authentic blackness as the primary condition of black liberation. This dissertation avoids such nativist reading of Morrison's fiction and pays close attention to Morrison's political representation of colonial relations between blacks and whites. To read the complexity of colonial relations between blacks and whites in Morrison's fiction, my dissertation refers to the work of postcolonial theorists like Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha and particularly integrates the concepts of mimicry, ambivalence, and hybridity.

ISBN: 9781124155159Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669123
African American Studies.

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