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Tra-Lou, Tesan Monique. "Mythe et fiction : Rudolph FISHER, Nella LARSEN et Toni MORRISON." Paris 7, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA070031.
Full textThis study focuses on the styles of three African-American authors through six novels: Rudolph Fisher's "The Walls of Jericho" and "The Conjure Man Dies", Nella Larsen's "Quicksand" and "Passing", Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and "Paradise". Using the myth functioning, the analysis seeks to highlight the many layers of narratives which blend poetry and visual and performance arts techniques with the prose. The characters and the plots thus create the conditions for a quest of a more vivid performing story. This tend to be both a way of thinking and a creative movement. Bitterness and happiness which are the basic emotions in life remain a way to drive the discurse from prose to the stage, on painting, carving, music and poetry fields. African religious practices are thus adjusted to the American black diasporic world. .
Michlin, Monica. "Toni Morrison & les voix interdites." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040254.
Full textThis study focuses mainly on the work of the African-American woman writer Toni Morrison. Its aim is to show how Morisson's writing of black bodies and of the African-American heritage, as well as her creation of a unique tragic voice, make hers a forbidden voice, a literary voice of memory (or rememory) and pain, struggling to be heard against the forces of suppression and oblivion. To each of these three themes-the body, the Afro-American heritage, the tragic voice a chapter of this study is devoted. The literary commentary of long extracts from the novels is the main feature of this dissertation, my hope being that such literary analyses may more specifically highlight the subtlety of Toni Morrison's work on language. Throughout these three chapters, other authors (African-American or not)are also the object of textual analysis, either because their voices enter in a call-response pattern with Morrison’s or, on the contrary, because they are emblematic of what Morrison writes against, of what she revises. In singling out writers who have chosen very similar themes, my point is to underline the marked differences in literary or ideological treatment that appear when their work is read in parallel with Morrison’s texts. The last chapter asks the question: "is there such a thing as a black voice?" in order not to avoid the question of the ethnicity of black literature. Without reducing black literature to the linguistic or sociological features it comprises, this chapter attempts to chart the already rich literary tradition that the black voice has behind it, a tradition which, thanks to the writers studied here, arches likes a rainbow from the fertile past into a glorious future
Le, Fustec Claude. "Crise et regeneration : la quête d'unite dans la fiction de Toni Cade Bambara et Toni Morrison." Toulouse 2, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996TOU20002.
Full textTorn from their motherland and rejected by those who caused their exile, afro-americans live in a place where they have no recognised identity. Hence, for them, existing will mean bridging the gap between their african and american identities. Since the 1970s, this is precisely what afro-american women writers have been aiming at doing. Toni cade bambara and toni morrison, particularly, have tried to go beyond the imperialist-derived secularism of western culture that fragments reality and caused afro-americans, in du bois' terms, to experience "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others". The crisis undergone by the afro-american psyche is thus studied in the etymological sense of the word, i. E. "separation", as reflected by bambara's and morrison's fiction. As a matter of fact, both writers have tried to substitute a regenerating sense of unity for the destructive dualism imposed by the ruling part of the american society. In their progression from a state of existential and stylistic crisis to a unified whole, their fictional writings demonstrate an equal urge to go beyond words in an attempt to grasp the essence of life, far beyond the limited and fragmenting vision conveyed by any ideology
Dabbagh, Lori. "Faire son chemin de Damas : le (soi-disant) Tiers monde et la femme dite "noire": Toni Morrison, Maryse Condé et Mariama Bâ." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030136.
Full textBefore undertaking the search for the other, it is necessary to travel to the farthest depths of oneself. The works of three so-called "black" women toni morrison, african-american, maryse conde, west indian, and mariama ba, african will help the researcher to reach the other shore and to come back to himself, but transformed by the experience, like saint paul on the road to damascus. For what is called american literature would not exist without the presence of black people, as toni morrison asserts, and without this author's works, the quest for the other in the west indies and in africa would not take place. These three women, as novelists, will have accomplished such a search. As for their characters, very few will manage to overcome obstacles and embrace the "other" element in themselves and find their mirror image reflected in the stranger. Those who finally build a bridge with the other will succeed in doing so in their own community or within their racial cultural group, which is already a step forward
El, Helou Rachelle. "La vulnérabilité dans la fiction de Toni Morrison : De l'aliénation à la reconstruction identitaire par le langage." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Côte d'Azur, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023COAZ2029.
Full textDuring an interview with Nellie McKay in 1983, Toni Morrison confided to her the following words: “I'm interested in survival―who survives and who does not, and why […] It''s the complexity of how people behave under harshness that is of interest to me―the qualities they show at the end of an event when their backs are up against the wall.” Therefore, in her works which are characterized by a force of vision and a poetic power which has made her writings famous all over the world, the novelist aspires to rectify the errors as well as the omissions of the official History over a period which extends from before the arrival of the first slave ship in Virginia in the 17th century to more contemporary times that go beyond the struggle of black Americans for desegregation and equal civil rights in the 1960s. In her texts that are sometimes elliptical, sometimes ostentatious, Toni Morrison wants to give a voice to marginalized, vulnerable and often “fragmented” characters who are deeply wounded in the flesh in order to put an end to the silence of several decades of racial discrimination which hinder their quest for identity. It is therefore through her pen that the writer reveals the struggles, the tribulations, but also the passions, the hopes, and the strategies of survival which animate her characters who strive to free themselves from the chains of oppression and from the weight of the past. By means of a language which was in turn an instrument of oppression and an instrument of redemption, Morrison makes out of language a mode of expression which reinvests the text with typically Afro-American ways/voices thus creating a symbolic space where Black people can now face the oppression of which they were once a victim and finally reconstitute their own subjectivity
El, Aroussi Adil. "La dialectique entre l'histoire et la fiction dans les romans de Toni Morrison." Angers, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005ANGE0047.
Full textToni Morrison is an Afro-Américan writer who won the Nobel prize of literature in 1993. In her novels, the official hisstory is represented as a form of reconstructing the past. Instead, she gives a version of history which is derived from the collective memory of the Afro-Américans. For Toni Morrison, re-writing the Afro-Américan history cannot be without retrieving the horrible experiences and the shameful images of the past underwent by the Blacks during slavery and after their emancipation. This manner of re-writing history in her novels creates a relation of dialectic beteween fiction and history. The past inspired by the official history is often depicted as a fiction and completed by the different stories narrated by the characters. In this way, she deconstructs the historical discourse and reconstructs an other version of history basedon the everyday experiences of the Blacks in the Unites States
Owona, Ndouguessa François-Xavier. "Crise d'identité et volonté d'auto-définition dans les romans de Toni Morrison." Paris 12, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA120009.
Full textIn each of morrison's novels published until 1987, the hero reveals a crisis of his identity and searches for self-definition either through alienation in the bluest eye, revolt in sula, or solidarity in song of solomon. Tar baby, the fourth novel, is an illustration of some traps set in front to the here in his adventure. As regards writing, morrison constantly associates to that of identity which is central, the following themes: sexuality, desalienation, the naming of characters and places, race mixing and negritude
Mielle, de Prinsac Annie-Paule. "De l'un à l'autre : l'identité dans les romans de Toni Morrison." Dijon, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996DIJOL014.
Full textThis thesis aims at studying the processes of individuation in the novels of Toni Morrison. Part one is devoted to the way slaves were dispossessed of their bodies and mind. Slavery, as it is pictured in beloved, is the past black people have to remember and face before they can build their identity. This search for meaning through the return to the origins called for the analytic model, especially as the configuration of the "black family" defeats the very notion of Freud’s oedipian triangle. The absence or weaknesses of the father in Morrison’s novels seem to be the cause of the woman's sufferings and of the problems of identification of the child. Parts two and three of the thesis thus deal respectively with the failure of men and the burden of women, through the complementary approaches of psycho-analysis and existentialism. It is ultimately through dialogue that the relationship between the characters evolves towards consciousness and self-discovery. They in turn lead to the opening on the other and the community. Morrison shows the futility of a solitary, individualistic quest, especially for women who must renounce their feminity and deny their ancestors. The processes of individuation finally goes through recognition of the figure of the mother who becomes the center of a new form of humanism made of responsibility and love
Andres, Emmanuelle. "Entre sacrifice et sacré : l'écriture de Toni Morrison." Thesis, Tours, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009TOUR2011/document.
Full textThis study investigates Toni Morrison’s oeuvre from the standpoint of the sacred, and in particular how the sacred bears upon the writing itself, thus transforming the text into the locus and condition of the reader’s experience. Morrison’s work is thematically and formally predicated upon an access to the sacred/holy. The concept of the sacred is indeed highly relevant in Toni Morrison’s work, since the very act of composing/conducting the novels is heard and set in an affective language which often renders the non-rational element of the divine, referred to here as the “holy”. Its ability to move and astound the reader is rendered through actual or textual sacrifice. As the title of her latest novel, A Mercy, suggests, the sacrificial gesture which is reproduced in the reading/writing experience (following Meschonnic’s concept of “lecture-écriture”) creates an intimate link between the characters’ sacrificial deaths and the gift of the book, thereby inscribing sacrifice and violence at the very heart of the novels. The idea of separation conveyed by the etymology of the word “sacred” is explored through the dichotomy of “purity” versus “impurity” in the novels, where characters labelled as either pure or impure participate in the sacralising process. The concept of the sacred/holy not only accounts for the impact of Toni Morrison’s writing on the reader; it also sheds light on the dialogical nature of her work from which arises the shared impulse that is the reading/writing of the book
Sutra, Christian. "Ecrire la femme afro-américaine : identité et lyrisme dans les oeuvres de fiction de Gayl Jones et de Toni Morrison." Bordeaux 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993BOR30027.
Full textGayl jones and toni morrison convey a completely different representation of afro-american women in american letters. The long-accepted american stereotypes related to sex and gender are challenged by them through their revisionary treatment of american history in the public and private lives of their heroines. (re) membering for them is at once a necessary and complex process of getting at the truth concerning african-american women. These writers present portraits of "arrested" or "emerging" black women beginning with the period of the "peculiar institution" through to presentday america. Gayl jones insists on the psychological and physical damage suffered by black women whereas toni morrison suggests in her narratives the potential for building a new jubjectivity which involves risk but offers the means to explore the redemptive possibilities of female coalescence. Both authors have inaugurated new forms of writing which incorporate their black oral tradition. Taking their inspiration from the blues -their lyricism, sheer strength, concentration and poetic qualities- gayl jones' heroines sing who they are and where they come from. Toni morrison writes her fiction using a highly metaphorical prose which comes close to the magic realism of garcia marquez
Books on the topic "Morrison, Tony (1931-...) – Critique et interprétation"
J, Peterson Nancy, ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and theoretical approaches. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Find full text1946-, Andrews William L., and McKay Nellie Y, eds. Toni Morrison's Beloved: A casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Find full textToni Morrison (Contemporary World Writers). Manchester University Press, 1998.
Find full textUnflinching gaze: Morrison and Faulkner re-envisioned. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
Find full textGeography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Find full textBeavers, Herman. Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Find full textToni Morrison And the Bible: Contested Intertextualities (African American Literature and Culture: Expanding and Exploding the Boundaries). Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.
Find full textPage, Philip. Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels. University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
Find full text(Editor), William L. Andrews, and Nellie Y. McKay (Editor), eds. Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook (Casebook in Contemporary Fiction). Oxford University Press, USA, 1998.
Find full textMandel, Naomi. Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, And Slavery in America (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture). University of Virginia Press, 2006.
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