{"product_id":"toni-morrison-and-the-geopoetics-of-place-race-and-be-longing-paperback-softback-9781439924310","title":"Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be\/longing (Paperback \/ softback) 9781439924310","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eToni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be\/longing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarilyn Sanders Mobley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781439924310\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e254 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"[P]erceptive.... Mobley is a capable interpreter of Morrison’s oeuvre.... [L]iterature scholars will appreciate the insights into Morrison’s fiction.\"-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003ci\u003e“In her brilliant study, Marilyn Sanders Mobley creates a voluminous space for readers to explore how Toni Morrison’s work invites us to make meaning for ourselves through her writing. While scholars of Morrison’s oeuvre will no doubt benefit from this intelligent and wide-ranging encounter, Mobley’s greatest achievement, perhaps, is in making anyone feel welcome who comes to Morrison in search of a deeper understanding of how to survive in the worlds we inhabit, from home to society, in our skins and inside the memories we carry. It’s a powerful and learned meditation, and one that deserves a prominent place in the field of Morrison studies.”\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates Jr\u003c\/b\u003e., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University \u003ci\u003e“What is commendable about \u003c\/i\u003eToni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be\/longing\u003ci\u003e is Mobley’s effort to delineate the strategies Morrison uses to achieve her often-stated claim to make ‘spaces for the reader’ in writing her fiction. Mobley pulls together many of the historical, cultural, and artistic influences and connections in Morrison’s work and provides an important contribution to Morrison scholarship. This is a book that many readers have been waiting for.”\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003cb\u003eCarolyn Denard\u003c\/b\u003e, Founder and Board Chair of the Toni Morrison Society, and editor of \u003ci\u003eWhat Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction by Toni Morrison\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Mobley makes a strong case for demonstrating Toni Morrison's success in creating places and 'spaces' in her texts in order provide a site of memory that stays in the reader's mind.... Summing Up: Recommended.\"\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eToni Morrison’s readers and critics typically focus more on the “what” than the “how” of her writing. In \u003ci\u003eToni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be\/longing\u003c\/i\u003e, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison’s expressed narrative intention of providing “spaces for the reader” to help us understand the narrative strategies in her work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mobley’s approach is as interdisciplinary, intersectional, nuanced, and complex as Morrison’s. She combines textual analysis with a study of Morrison’s cultural politics and narrative poetics and describes how Morrison engages with both history and the present political moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Informed by research in geocriticism, spatial literary studies, African American literary studies, and Black feminist studies at the intersection of poetics and cultural politics, Mobley identifies four narrative strategies that illuminate how Morrison creates such spaces in her fiction; what these spaces say about her understanding of place, race, and belonging; and how they constitute a way to read and re-read her work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52712028340504,"sku":"9781439924310","price":22.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/toni-morrison-and-the-geopoetics-of-place-race-and-be-longing-paperback-softback-9781439924310","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}