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Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle : The Novels of Toni Morrison Southern Literary Studies
author
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Grewal, Gurleen.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807122971
print isbn13
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9780807122976
ebook isbn13
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9780585318882
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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1998
lcc
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PS3563.O8749Z655 1998eb
ddc
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813/.54
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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.
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Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle
The Novels of Toni Morrison
Gurleen Grewal
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Copyright 1998 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing
A partial version of chapter 1 appeared in Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison, edited by Nellie McKay and Katherine Earle (New York: MLA of America, 1997). A partial version of chapter 5 appeared in Memory and Cultural Politics: New Approaches to American Ethnic Literatures, edited by Amritjit Singh, Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., and Robert E. Hogan (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grewal, Gurleen. Circles of sorrow, lines of struggle: the novels of Toni Morrison /Gurleen Grewal. p. cm. (Southern literary studies) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0-8071-2297-1 (alk. paper) 1. Morrison, ToniCriticism and interpretation. 2. Women and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. Afro-American women in literature. 4. Afro-Americans in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS3563.08749Z655 1998 813'.54dc21 98-5630 CIP
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.
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For my parents, Jasmer Kaur and Sangat Singh Grewal and In memory of Satpreet Grewal, brother, healer, anam cara* who blessed my life with his radiance
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Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
1 The Decolonizing Vision: The Bluest Eye
20
2 Freedom's Absent Horizon: Sula
42
3 Redeeming the Legacy of the Past: Song of Solomon
60
4 Prospero's Spell and the Question of Resistance: Tar Baby
79
5 On the Rocking Loom of History, a Net to Hold the Past: Beloved
96
6 A Hearing of History: Jazz
118
Selected Bibliography
139
Index
147
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Preface
I agree with Dana Polan when she denies that literary criticism is "in any way a metaphor for larger struggles" and asserts "rather, it is a place of such struggles." I have chosen to struggle with and alongside the works of Toni Morrison because she, as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari have said of Kafka, "knew how to offer, how to invent this amorous political life."1
Toni Morrison speaks to meand perhaps to many postcolonial scholars who have thought hard about their own colonial inculcation in English literaturewhen she admits, "Excising the political from the life of the mind is a sacrifice that has proven costly." In choosing to study Toni Morrison's work, I was responding to a specific challenge"the quest for relevance"put to me by my own history: a postcolonial education in India culminating with an American Ph.D. in English, an education la Matthew Arnold, in "the best that has been thought and said." Not surprisingly, I too felt like the young people in Toni Morrison's Nobel acceptance speech who admit, to the griot, "We have no bird in our hands, living or dead." Let me recall their complaint to the old, blind woman, the repository of narrative wisdom: "Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that you can pass along to help us start strong?''2
In the modern literature of every nation, the novel appears to satisfy the middle-class demand for self-appraisals of identities, both individual and collective. In postcolonial societies this demand is a kind of hunger, one Toni Morrison understood all too well when she said, "Narrative is radical, creating
1. Dana Polan, Introduction to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari,
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