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"In this second edition, the author of Toni Morrison's Developing Class Consciousness analyzes all of Toni Morrison's novels to trace her increasing awareness of the African-American's class exploitation and race and gender oppression. The author argues that each work is a thematic and structural development of the preceding one. She contends that several factors converged to affect Morrison's consciousness: family background, historical and current events, literary works, and the writing process itself. The purpose of the study is to reveal that great writers such as Morrison, whose interest is in discovering a solution to the exploitation and oppression of African people, use their works as laboratories, working methodically and conscientiously to discover solutions while still maintaining that "sweetness" that Matthew Arnold heralds as the mark of fine fiction." "The second edition differs from the first both quantitatively and qualitatively. Three additional chapters and a new part 2 have been added. Qualitatively, the style has changed, most noticeably it reflects Morrison's recognition of the African's mistaken, but persistent belief that the enemy is the "white man." This no

Author

Doreatha Drummond Mbalia

Publisher

Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press ; London: Associated University Presses

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780945636175

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities