Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Although the title of this study has a philosophical ring to it, what La Vinia Jennings actually does is to trace religious figures or motifs of African origin in Toni Morrison’s fiction. This is not an easy task, as she implicitly admits in her first section and introduction: “Finding the elusive but identifiable blackness within the culture out of which Toni Morrison writes.” Out of the six sections of the book, four are dedicated to the search of figures and/or motifs: section 2 “Kongo’s ...
Source: Cahiers d études africaines
Author: Charles Scheel
Institution: Cambridge University Press
Language: French
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W151920367