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<p>This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison's novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues how Morrison's novels revise conventional generic forms such as bildungsroman, folktales, slave narratives, and the formal realism of the novel itself. This study goes beyond formalist analyses to show how these revisions expose the relationship between race, conventional generic forms, and the dominant culture. Morrison's revisions critiqu

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Author

Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

Publisher

ROUTLEDGE TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP NEW YORK LONDON

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415961486

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Semiotics & Theory, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24