Justine Tally

Paradise Reconsidered

Toni Morrison's (Hi)stories and Truths
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Paradise Reconsidered
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  • 978-3-8258-4204-5
  • 3
  • 1999
  • 112
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Toni Morison's Paradise (1998) arrived on the scene amid vociferous acclaim and much... mehr
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Toni Morison's Paradise (1998) arrived on the scene amid vociferous acclaim and much consternation. Third in the trilogy begun with Beloved and Jazz, this fascinating yet complicated the novel has sown as much confusion as admiration. How does it work? How does the novel close the trilogy? Indeed, a major complaint among reviewers, why does Morrison overload us with so many characters and stories?

In this first book-length study of Paradise, Justin Tally securely links the work to Morrison's entire oeuvre and effectively argues that while all of the novels of the trilogy are deeply analytical of the relationship of memory, story and history, the historical narrative: memory is fickle, story is unreliable, and history is subject to manipulation. A master narrative of the past is again dictated by the dominant discourse, but this time the control exerted is black und male, not white and male. Though this stranglehold threatens to deaden life and put the future on hold, Morrison's narrative disruptions challenge the very nature of this "paradise" on earth.

Justine Tally is associate professor of American Studies at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain) and has specialized in African Amercian studies - language, literature, culture and literary theory - for almost twenty years. Her special field of interest is the fiction of contemporary black women, but her approach is most often rooted in historical background and cultural context with a strong emphasis on language and the theoretical underpinnings of the narratives.
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