{"product_id":"objects-and-intertexts-in-toni-morrison-s-beloved-hardback","title":"Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s \"Beloved\" - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eObjects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s\u003c\/em\u003e “Beloved”: \u003cem\u003eThe Case for Reparations \u003c\/em\u003eis an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy— a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a “novel-tragedy” (Kliger)—and a novel of objects. Its many things—literary, conceptual, linguistic— are viewed as vessels carrying the (hi)story and the political concerns. From this, a third conclusion is drawn: Fadem argues for a view of \u003cem\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e as a case for reparations. That status is founded on two outstanding object lessons: the character of Beloved as embodiment of the subject-object relations defining the slave state and the grammatical object “weather” in the sentence “The rest is…” on the novel’s final page. This intertextual reference places \u003cem\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e in a comparative link with \u003cem\u003eHamlet \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eOresteia\u003c\/em\u003e. Fadem’s research is meticulous in engaging the full spectrum of tragedy theory, much critical theory, and a full swathe of scholarship on the novel. Few critics take up the matter of reparations, still fewer the politics of genre, craft, and form. This scholar posits Morrison’s tragedy as constituting a searing critique of modernity, as composed through meaningful intertextualities and as crafted by profound “thingly” objects (Brown). Altogether, Fadem has divined a fascinating singular treatment of \u003cem\u003eBeloved \u003c\/em\u003eexploring the connections between form and craft together with critical historical and political implications. The book argues, finally, that this novel’s first concern is justice, and its chief aim to serve as a clarion call for material— and not merely symbolic—reparations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is freely available to read at https:\/\/taylorandfrancis.com\/socialjustice\/?c=language-literature-arts#\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45564108341486,"sku":"9780367416195","price":193.6,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/objects-and-intertexts-in-toni-morrison-s-beloved-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}