Beyond Magic Realism: the Stuff of Ordinary Lives? Lorene Cary s Rewriting of Beloved
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Authors: | Le Fustec, Claude | Abstract: | In the current context of the proliferation of neo-slave narratives, Lorene s Cary The Price of a Child (1995) strikes a rather singular tone. With its title explicitly echoing Toni Morrison s Beloved, Cary s novel and its straightforward realism come as a surprise. As this close intertextual reading of the two novels intends to show, beyond expressing a probable anxiety of influence, Cary s narrative appears to revise major tenets of the African American ethos on which Beloved rests. |
Keywords: | Beloved; The Price of a Child; neo-slave narrative; magic realism; African American ethos | Issue Date: | 2014 | Journal/Edited collection: | Black Studies Papers | Start page: | 153 | End page: | 166 | Note: | 1 | Band: | 1 | Type: | Artikel/Aufsatz | ISSN: | 2198-7920 | Secondary publication: | no | URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00103783-15 | Institution: | Universität Bremen | Faculty: | FB10 Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften | Institute: | English-Speaking Cultures |
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