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Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction
Series: - Costerus New Series Online, Volume: 223
- Costerus New Series, Volume: 223
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction investigates Morrison’s aesthetics in terms of narrative’s ethical import. Morrison’s writing is concerned with ethically debatable issues and it offers a problematic representation of human experiences in African American history. Whilst previous critical studies consider ethics in relation to events in the story, Palladino explores its intersection with aesthetics. Narrativizing the moral law, Morrison’s imperative is to relate the past, and to find ways to tell what is often unspeakable. The quest for ways to narrate horrific facts is a quest for an aesthetics which includes an appeal to the reader and thus necessarily engages with the ethical. This study foregrounds the equivocal as a key feature of narrative ethics.
Dr Mariangela Palladino is lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at the University of Keele. Her research interests and publications are at the intersection of postcolonial literatures and cultures, migration and diaspora, and interdisciplinary methods.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Ethics and Aesthetics, Theories of Intersection
2 Memory, Redemption and Salvation
3 Disembodied Tellers and Delayed Signification
4 Orality and the Ethics of Telling
5 Healing Hands, Harming Hands
6 “Body Talk”: Beloved and Fragmentation
Works Cited
Index
Introduction
1 Ethics and Aesthetics, Theories of Intersection
2 Memory, Redemption and Salvation
3 Disembodied Tellers and Delayed Signification
4 Orality and the Ethics of Telling
5 Healing Hands, Harming Hands
6 “Body Talk”: Beloved and Fragmentation
Works Cited
Index
Scholars and students interested in the magnitude of Toni Morrison’s work, and those concerned with narrative ethics.