'We are individuals': Ralph Ellison and selfhood in the 1940s
January 2019
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Ralph Ellison: Biographical Essays
Toni Morrison's Fiction: 'Worlding' the Novel
December 2018
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A Companion to World Literature
White Noise? Toni Morrison's _Desdemona_ and Transnational Voicings Through Time
October 2018
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Race, Gender and Sexualities in the Atlantic World
Toni Morrison
July 2017
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Oxford Bibliographies: Literary and Critical Theory
Constructing selfhood through re-voicing the classical past: Bernardine Evaristo, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Robin Coste Lewis
March 2017
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Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
This essay examines three works by three women writers whose strategies for rewriting the past include a revisionary engagement with the cultural legacies of Ancient Greece and Rome: The Emperor’s Babe (Bernardine Evaristo, 2001) Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Marlene NourbeSe Philip, 1991), and Voyage of the Sable Venus (Robin Coste Lewis, 2015). It argues that each embodies a mode of resistance that both protests the historic oppression of women of colour and asserts a black female agency, insisting on an empowered present and future. In achieving this, all three transgress or subvert conventional generic distinctions between verse and prose, and, in Lewis’s case, between the cultural forms and academic disciplines of art, art history and literature. Each work insists on a transnational conception of black identity, implicitly tracing black diasporic experience through Africa, Europe and the Americas, and asserting the continued interconnections between these three. And, in their confrontations with the histories of colonialism, empire and slavery, each invokes not just the history of the 17th-21st centuries CE but also the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome, the legacies of which underpinned these modern European processes of domination. Of the three works discussed here, those by Evaristo and Lewis (in part through their strategy of engaging with the traditions of Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Sudan) ultimately constitute works of greater subversive power than does that of Philip.
Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Robin Coste Lewis, Toni Morrison
, female, African Athena, Ovid, black,
Bernardine Evaristo, Homer, black classicism
The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison
January 2013
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Book
She provides a detailed exegesis of Morrison's engagement with belief systems
and structures that center on Kongo's ... The Cambridge Companion to Toni
Morrison, edited by lustine Tally, appeared in 2007; many of its useful essays are
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Literary Criticism
Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture
January 2013
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Her Dark Materials: Toni Morrison, John Milton, and Concepts of "Dominion" in A Mercy
January 2012
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Journal article
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African American Review
African Athena New Agendas
October 2011
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Book
Athena. Robert. J. C. Young. One of the effects of the serial publication of Black
Athena since 1987, with a volume appearing every decade, is that the books
have also been the companion of our own intellectual lives and development
over ...
History
The Africanness of Classicism in the Work of Toni Morrison
January 2011
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African Athena: New Agendas
A New 'Romen' Empire: Toni Morrison's _Love_ and the Classics