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Dangerous Freedom : Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels
author
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Page, Philip.
publisher
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University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin
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0878058613
print isbn13
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9780878058617
ebook isbn13
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9780585180038
language
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English
subject
Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century, African American women in literature, African Americans in literature.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS3563.O8749Z82 1995eb
ddc
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813/.54
subject
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Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century, African American women in literature, African Americans in literature.
Page iii
Dangerous Freedom
Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels
Philip Page
Page iv
Earlier versions of portions of Chapter 7 were published in African American Review, volume 26, number 2 (Summer 1992) and of Chapter 8 in African American Review, volume 29, number 1 (Spring 1995).
Copyright 1995 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 99 98 97 96 4 3 2 1
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Page, Philip. Dangerous freedom : fusion and fragmentation in Toni Morrison's novels / Philip Page. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-860-5 (cloth: alk. paper). - ISBN 0-87805-861-3 (paper: alk. paper) 1. Morrison, ToniCriticism and interpretation. 2. Women and literatureUnited States-History-20th century. 3. Afro-American women in literature. 4. Afro-Americans in literature. I. Title. PS3563.08749Z82 1996 813'.54dc20 95-44261 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
Page v
FOR MY FATHER
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
1 The Puzzle of the One-and-the-Many
3
2 Morrison's Novels as Texts, Not Works
26
3 The Break Was a Bad One: The Split World of The Bluest Eye
37
4 Shocked into Separateness: Unresolved Oppositions in Sula
60
5 Putting It All Together: Attempted Unification in Song of Solomon
84
6 Everyone Was Out of Place: Contention and Dissolution in Tar Baby
108
7 Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts: Circularity in Beloved
133
8 Make Me, Remake Me: Traces, Cracks, and Wells in Jazz
159
9 What's the World For If You Can't Make It Up the
Way You Want It?
178
Notes
189
Works Cited
209
Index
225
Page ix
Acknowledgments
I thank all the students in my classes that included Morrison's fiction, especially those in the courses devoted solely to it. Their insights, questions, and enthusiasm have fueled this study. I extend special thanks to a trio of graduate studentsYvonne Atkinson, Sally-Anne Josephson, and Charlotte Streetfor their ideas, support, and patience. I also thank Harry Hellenbrand for his persistent backing and his provocative comments on early drafts of most of these chapters; Susan Imbarrata for her helpful suggestions on the manuscript; and my other colleagues in the English Department at California State University, San Bernardino for their advice and encouragement. I have received consistent support from my campus, in particular from the School of Humanities and its dean, Beverly Hendricks. I thank Barbara Christian for her insightful reading of the manuscript and for her encouragement. I thank Anders L. Thompson for his careful copyediting. I thank everyone with whom I have worked at the University Press of Mississippi, especially Seetha A-Srinivasan. Finally, I thank my wife, Reba, who showed the way and held my hand.
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One The Puzzle of the One-and-the-Many
As Toni Morrison's fiction details the efforts of African Americans to find viable identities in a racialized society, it subtly probes what Ralph Ellison calls "the puzzle of the one-and-the-many" (Shadow 164-65). This is the idea that any entity is simultaneously unified yet divided, a whole yet an aggregation of parts. For example, the United States exists as a whole yet as regions, states, subgroups, and individuals; and, even though a discrete self is usually presumed, any individual exists in a multiplicity of roles, traits, and other factors. Similarly, a novel stands as a unified entity but simultaneously exists as a complex configuration of its constituent parts. Since no single English term adequately expresses this concept, I use "fusion and fragmentation," as well as comparable phrases like "plurality-in-unity," to indicate this simultaneous and overlapping unity and differentiation. 1
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