Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Fascicolo | 57 | 2023
Articolo | Enchantment as a Subversive force in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child
Abstract
There is a substantial body of scholarship arguing for the relevance of magic realism to Toni Morrison’s fictional production, with one exception being her last novel God Help the Child, which, in that respect, has been remarkably overlooked. The present paper intends to fill this scholarly gap by focusing on what Morrison called “enchantment”, a powerful blend of magic and realism that she employed to represent a host of racial and ancestral issues of Blackness, often of a traumatic kind.
Presentato: 17 Aprile 2023 | Accettato: 11 Luglio 2023 | Pubblicato 30 Ottobre 2023 | Lingua: en
Keywords Magical realism • God Help the Child • Toni Morrison • Colorism • Enchantment
Copyright © 2023 Simona Porro. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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dc.title |
Enchantment as a Subversive force in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child |
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Porro Simona |
dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Articolo |
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en |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2023/57/enchantment-as-a-subversive-force-in-toni-morrison/ |
dc.description.abstract |
There is a substantial body of scholarship arguing for the relevance of magic realism to Toni Morrison’s fictional production, with one exception being her last novel God Help the Child, which, in that respect, has been remarkably overlooked. The present paper intends to fill this scholarly gap by focusing on what Morrison called “enchantment”, a powerful blend of magic and realism that she employed to represent a host of racial and ancestral issues of Blackness, often of a traumatic kind. |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 57 | Settembre 2023 |
dc.issued |
2023-10-30 |
dc.dateAccepted |
2023-07-11 |
dc.dateSubmitted |
2023-04-17 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2499-1562 |
dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2023/11/013 |
dc.peer-review |
yes |
dc.subject |
Colorism |
dc.subject |
Enchantment |
dc.subject |
God Help the Child |
dc.subject |
Magical realism |
dc.subject |
Toni Morrison |
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