Toni Morrison and the New Black: Reading God Help the Child

ISBN-13: 9781032095264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 116 str.

Jaleel Akhtar

Opis

Toni Morrison and the New Black examines how Morrison explores the concept of the new black in the context of post-soul, post-black and post-racial discourses. Morrison evolves the new black as symbolic of unprecedented black success in all walks of life, from politics to the media, business and beyond. Jaleel Akhtar's work takes this a

Recenzje

"In his detailed, textured analysis, Jaleel Akhtar assesses God Help the Child as Toni Morrison’s articulation of ‘new black’ identities as fluid, plastic and evolving from both Harlem Renaissance conceptualizations of the ‘New Negro’ and from the post-civil rights era…Akhtar’s analysis will prove to be a resource for future debate. The awareness of Morrison’s body of work, fiction, and non-fiction, leads to some perceptive and insightful extrapolations that will encourage further, enriched debate on the ‘new black.’" Yasmin Begum, Contemporary Women's Writing

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Passing as the Old Black

2 Passing as the New Black

3 Oreotizing the New Black

4 The New Black Melancholy

Conclusion: Apostrophe in God Help the Child

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

In his detailed, textured analysis, Jaleel Akhtar assesses God Help the Child as

Toni Morrison’s articulation of “new black” identities as fluid, plastic and evolving

from both Harlem Renaissance conceptualizations of the “New Negro” and from

the post-civil rights era