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Growing Up to be a Man: Son Revisited
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 4, December 2017
- pp. 17-32
- 10.1353/mos.2017.0050
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay argues that Toni Morrison's recent novel Home re-writes the characters in Tar Baby so as to allow the Son figure to achieve a maturity foreclosed in the original work and to encourage a re-reading of Jadine as an empowered woman.