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https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00103779-13

Reading/Writing "the most wretched business": Toni Morrison s A Mercy

Veröffentlichungsdatum
2014
Autoren
Andres, Emmanuelle  
Zusammenfassung
The epilogue of Toni Morrison s A Mercy (2008) is narrated by the teenage character-narrator Florens mother. Though addressed to her daughter, the mother s words are heard/read only by the reader, who is left with the (merciful?) gift of understanding and reinterpreting the very act that is at the center of the novel. The picture (s)he shapes, the telling (s)he hears (161), are conditioned by Florens narration the affective lens through which the world (161) and the narrative are to be read. The reader s legitimacy is recognized and rewarded at the very end of A Mer-cy. Indeed, the mother s account, conjured up by Florens, is staged as an imaginary reconciliation, arising from the reading itself, as well as from the reader s affective, aesthetic desire for such reconciliation.
Schlagwörter
Morrison

; 

reading

; 

writing

; 

slavery
Institution
Universität Bremen  
Fachbereich
Fachbereich 10: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (FB 10)  
Institute
English-Speaking Cultures  
Dokumenttyp
Artikel/Aufsatz
Zeitschrift/Sammelwerk
Black Studies Papers  
Band
1
Heft
1
Startseite
91
Endseite
104
Zweitveröffentlichung
Nein
Sprache
Deutsch
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