... This chapter looks at Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Toni Morrison’s Jazz , two novels that riff on the African American migration narrative, the movement of black bodies from the South to the North in the early part of the twentieth century. While this upward narrative promised...

... .To provide a different conception of race and nation, one that takes seriously the violence involved in our attachments to solid (individual and collective) identities, this chapter provides a creative reading of Toni Morrison’s Paradise . Richard Rorty American exceptionalism collective violence...

... Chapter 1 focuses on the desire for bodily release that subtly moves throughout a system of narrative flashbacks and anticipations in Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973) and Beloved (1987). The dozen times the author uses the term “easefulness” in her early works provides a key to the utopian map...