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3. Time Out of Joint: The Temporal Logic of Morrison’s Modernist Apocalyptics
- Fordham University Press
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Abstract
This chapter examines the modernist apocalyptic elements in the novels of Toni Morrison. It considers the black migration from the South to the North as driven by a desire to render the "want and violence" of the South geographically and temporally past and suggests that the movement of the past as the future is the kind of rhetorical gesture that makes space for notions of repetition. This chapter also discusses Morrison's view that it is the very fantasy of a dream "taking place" that made slavery possible and brutality its unnecessary angel.
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