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New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child: Race, Culture, and History

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 12 Sep 2024 01:51:06
New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child: Race, Culture, and History

Alice Knox Eaton, "New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child: Race, Culture, and History"
English | ISBN: 1496828879 | 2020 | 180 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Contributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-González, and Anissa Wardi

In her eleventh novel, God Help the Child, Toni Morrison returned to several of the signature themes explored in her previous work: pernicious beauty standards for women, particularly African American women; mother-child relationships; racism and colorism; and child sexual abuse. God Help the Child, published in 2015, is set in the contemporary period, unlike all of her previous novels. The contemporary setting is ultimately incidental to the project of the novel, however; as with Morrison’s other work, the story takes on mythic qualities, and the larger-than-life themes lend themselves to allegorical and symbolic readings that resonate in light of both contemporary and historical issues.



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