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The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness

The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0230623085
ISBN13: 9780230623088
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 28 2010
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Although all published biographical information on Toni Morrison agrees that her birth name was Chloe Anthony Wofford, John Duvall's book challenges this claim. Using new biographical information, he explores the issue of names and naming in Morrison's fiction and repeatedly finds surprising traces of the Nobel Prize-winning author's struggle to construct a useable identity as an African American woman novelist. Whatever the exact circumstances surrounding her decision to become Toni, one thing becomes clear: the question of identity was not a given for Morrison.

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