Rewriting Black Identities
Ferguson, Rebecca Hope
This book received a Toni Morrison Society Recognition Award
The complexity of African-American identities is a central concern in Toni Morrison's writing. Speaking of «the enormous layers of lives that [black Americans] live, » she has commented that «If I examine those layers, I don't come up with simple statements.» Drawing on relevant areas of feminist, poststructuralist and race-related theory, this study explores aspects of that complex...