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Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle - (Southern Literary Studies) by Gurleen Grewal (Paperback)

Name: Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle - (Southern Literary Studies) by Gurleen Grewal (Paperback)
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This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison--The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, and Jazz--situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and reconstructs social memory.
About the Author: Gurleen Grewal is associate professor of women's studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
168 Pages
Literary Criticism, American
Series Name: Southern Literary Studies

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This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison--The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, and Jazz--situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and reconstructs social memory. Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle portrays Nobel laureate Morrison as a historiographer attempting to bridge the gap between emergent black middle-class America and its subaltern origins.

Gurleen Grewal demonstrates how Morrison's novels perform a therapeutic and political function of recovery. What is most compelling about Morrison's fiction, Grewal posits, is its reevaluation of the individual via the complex sociopolitical heritage that bespeaks the individual. Ultimately, these fictive "circles of sorrow" invite the reader into the collective struggle of humankind who are living the long sentence of history by repeating, contesting, and remaking it.

About the Author

Gurleen Grewal is associate professor of women's studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.98 Inches (H) x 5.98 Inches (W) x .37 Inches (D)

Weight: .5 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 168

Genre: Literary Criticism

Sub-Genre: American

Series Title: Southern Literary Studies

Publisher: LSU Press

Theme: African American

Format: Paperback

Author: Gurleen Grewal

Language: English

Street Date: December 1, 1998

TCIN: 1004161435

UPC: 9780807126431

Item Number (DPCI): 247-27-4013

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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