And I the eye of the storm : reading the past/constructing the present in Toni Morrison's novels Beloved and Jazz.

Terzieva, Rossitsa (1998). And I the eye of the storm : reading the past/constructing the present in Toni Morrison's novels Beloved and Jazz. MPhil thesis The Open University.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.000116be

Abstract

This work analyses two novels by the Afro-American novelist Toni Morrison by employing critical tools from diverse fields such as structuralism, narratology, psychoanalysis and philosophy. The Introduction posits some problems in relation to the analysis of the concepts of race and gender from a feminia perspective. Chapter 1 is dedicated to story and memory in Beloved. Chapter 2 analyses narration and the ‘jazzy’ prose style Jazz, Chapter 3 is an interpretation of the time-space and power concepts as discussed by Heidegger, Foucault, and Bakhtin. The conclusion summarises in short the dissertation.

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