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... 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...

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... Chapter 6 focuses on the work of sovereignty in Toni Morrison's A Mercy. This is Morrison's only novel that sets itself up in animal life, as its first scenes open upon a new world burgeoning with hum:animal. The arguments in earlier chapters come to a head in this final one, exploring the how...

... The introduction traces the trajectory of gendered hyperembodiment through the cultural productions of the black Atlantic that are heavily dependent upon black women’s representational stasis. Using examples from Toni Morrison’s Beloved , Audre Lorde’s poem “Afterimages,” and John Edgar...

... Section five collects Greg Tate’s best literary criticism, on works ranging from novels by Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, and Edward P. Jones to scholarly work by Patricia Hill Collins and biographers of Amiri Baraka and Frantz Fanon. In a final essay, “Kalahari Hopscotch,” Tate reflects on his...