{"product_id":"toni-morrison-an-ethical-poetics-hardcover","title":"Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYvette Christiansë\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics \u003c\/em\u003esituates Toni Morrison as \u003cstrong\u003ea writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience.\u003c\/strong\u003e In foregrounding the ethics of fiction writing, the book resists any triumphalist reading of Morrison's achievement in order to allow the meditative, unsettled, and unsettling questions that arise throughout her long labor at the nexus of language and politics, where her fiction interrogates representation itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between close reading and critical theory, \u003cem\u003eToni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the ways in which Morrison's primary engagement with language has been \u003cstrong\u003ea search for how and what language is made to communicate, and for how and what speaks in and from generation to generation.\u003c\/strong\u003e There is no easy escape from\u003cbr\u003esuch legacy, no escape into a pure language free of the burdens of racialized agendas. Rather, there is the example of Morrison's commitment to writerly, which is to say readerly, wakefulness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a time when sustained study devoted to single authors has become rare, this book will be \u003cstrong\u003ean invaluable resource for readers, scholars, and teachers\u003c\/strong\u003e of Morrison's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYvette Christainsë \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of English and Africana Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of two books of poetry, Castaway (Duke University Press, 1999) and Imprendehora (Kwela\/Snail Press, South Africa, 2009). Her novel Unconfessed (Other Press, 2007, Kwela Books, 2007, Querido, 2007) was a finalist for the Hemingway\/PEN Prize for first fiction and a recipient of a 2007 ForeWord Magazine BEA Award, and was shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2008 and the Ama Ata Aidoo Prize in 2010.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757880967456,"sku":"9780823239153","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ef6567998dff247f18ac2b199669034c.webp?v=1780113949","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/toni-morrison-an-ethical-poetics-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}