The point of entanglement: modernism, Diaspora, and Toni Morrison's Love

Black Diaspora Studies constitute an indispensable analytical discourse for black expressivity. Ignoring such studies, mainstream, journalistic criticism of a novel such as Toni Morrison's Love stumbles into banal dead ends. Only through a scholarly return to the dispersed singularities that Ed...

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Published in:African and black diaspora 2011-01, Vol.4 (1), p.1-18
Main Author: Baker, Houston A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Black Diaspora Studies
Creativity
Diaspora
Discourse
Erzulie
Literature
Love
mainstream journalistic criticism
Modernism
Morrison, Toni
Narratives
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Slave trade
Spirituality
Survival
Toni Morrison
transatlantic slave trade
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Summary:Black Diaspora Studies constitute an indispensable analytical discourse for black expressivity. Ignoring such studies, mainstream, journalistic criticism of a novel such as Toni Morrison's Love stumbles into banal dead ends. Only through a scholarly return to the dispersed singularities that Edouard Glissant terms the 'point of entanglement' can critics render sufficient accounts of Morrison's corpus and its creative kin. The enduring legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome are crucial to understanding Black Diaspora life and creativity in the contemporary Americas. Love reveals a striking grammar that has been identified as de-idealized and archivally generative: a discursive system replete with both dread silences, and 'broken word' narratives of resilience, spiritual retention, and miraculous survival.
ISSN:1752-8631
1752-864X
DOI:10.1080/17528631.2011.533874