Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom - Couverture rigide

Balfour, Lawrie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0190673281 ISBN 13 : 9780190673284

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2023

Synopsis

When Toni Morrison declares that she "can't wait for the ultimate liberation theory to imagine its practice and do its work," she raises an issue at the heart of modern political thought: How should we understand freedom? And what does freedom mean in the shadow of racial slavery and colonialism? In this study of Toni Morrison's writing, Lawrie Balfour explores Morrison's reflections on the idea of freedom in her novels and nonfiction. While Morrison's literary achievements are widely celebrated, her political thought has yet to receive the same attention. Balfour shows how Morrison's writing illuminates the meanings of freedom and unfreedom in a democratic society founded on both the defense of liberty and the right to enslavement.

Morrison's fiction and meditations on the power of language challenge wishful notions of color-blindness and complaints that it is time to move beyond thinking and talking about race. Her attentiveness to the experiences of people "no one inquired of"--especially her interest in the lives of black women and girls--reorients democratic study toward racial slavery, settler colonialism, and the ongoing processes of theft and domination instituted by these practices. Morrison's writings kindle new forms of freedom-seeking that do not rely on the subjugation of others.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lawrie Balfour is James Hart Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and author of Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois and The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy. Her research explores how slavery, colonialism, and their legacies shape modern political life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190673281
• ISBN 13: 9780190673284
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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