Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: This article probes how Toni Morrison translates biographical history in Margaret Garner in relation to Black women's self-determination. Margaret Garner was regarded with both reproach and reverence for murdering her two-year-old daughter to prevent the child from being returned to slavery after they escaped in 1856. Writing the 2005 opera Margaret Garner, Morrison made a number of changes to the historical narrative of the eponymous heroine. The focus of her translation is not on presenting an accurate recountal of history; rather, the goal is to redress the limitations placed on Black women's self-determination by granting them agency through this interpretation of Garner
Author: Leon James Bynum
Institution: Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1557161732