Images de l'Amérique noire dans Beloved de Toni Morrison : la représentation en question
This article aims at showing how Toni Morrison questions a certain representation of African-American history. Beloved, which deals with the narratives of the middle passage and antebellum America, tries to revise a whole series of literary and iconic stereotypes. Morrison’s reflection focuses on...
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| Formaat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2001
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | This article aims at showing how Toni Morrison questions a certain representation of African-American history. Beloved, which deals with the narratives of the middle passage and antebellum America, tries to revise a whole series of literary and iconic stereotypes. Morrison’s reflection focuses on the function of metaphors, catachresis and comparisons in discourses on the African-American experience—that all point to the difficulty of depicting the horror of that experience. Hence the uses of colour, the changing depictions of the tree in Sethe’s back or the impossible rendering of the infanticide itself are emblematic of Morrison’s working out of the tension between description and oblivion, experience and (re)memory. |
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