Toni Morrison by Lawrie Balfour - 9780190673284

Oxford University Press Inc

Toni MorrisonImagining Freedom\nAuthor(s): Lawrie Balfour\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780190673284, 978-0190673284\nSynopsis\nWhen Toni Morrison declares that she can't wait for the ultimate liberation theory to imagine its practice and do its work, she raises an issue at the heart of modern political thought: How should we understand freedom? And what does freedom mean in the shadow of racial slavery and colonialism? In this study of Toni Morrison's writing, Lawrie Balfour explores Morrison's reflections on the idea of freedom in her novels and nonfiction. While Morrison's literary achievements are widely celebrated, her political thought has yet to receive the same attention. Balfour shows how Morrison's writing illuminates the meanings of freedom and unfreedom in a democratic society founded on both the defense of liberty and the right to enslavement. \n\nMorrison's fiction and meditation.