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

by John N. Duvall

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0230623085

ISBN13:9780230623088

Release Date:January 2010

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:182 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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