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Transforming America : Toni Morrison and classical tradition
Get PDFThis thesis examines a significant but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's
work: her ambivalent engagement with classical tradition. Analysing all eight
novels. it argues that her allusiveness to the cultural practices of Ancient Greece
and Rome is fundamental to her political project. Illuminating hegemonic
America's consistent recourse to the classical world in the construction of its
identity, I expand on prior scholarship by reading Morrison's own revisionary
classicism as a subversion of dominant US culture. My three-part study
examines the way her deployment of Graeco-Roman tradition destabilizes
mythologies of the American Dream, prevailing narratives of America's
history, and national ideologies of purity. Part I shows that Morrison enlists
tragic conventions to problematize the Dream's central tenets of upward
mobility, progress and freedom. It argues that while her engagement with Greek
choric models effects her refutation of individualism, it is her later novels'
rejection of a wholly catastrophic vision that enables her to avoid reinscribing
the Dream. Part II demonstrates that it is through her classical allusiveness that
Morrison rewrites American history. Her multiply-resonant echoes of the epic,
pastoral and tragic traditions that have consistently informed the dominant
culture's justifications for and representations of its actions enable her
reconfiguration of colonization, of the foundation of the new nation, of slavery
and its aftermath and of the Civil Rights Movement. Part III illuminates how
the author uses the discourse of pollution or miasma to challenge
Enlightenment-derived valorizations of racial purity and to expose the practices
of scapegoating and revenge as flawed means to moral purity. Her interest in
the hegemonic fabrication of classical tradition as itself a pure and purifying
force is matched by her insistence on that tradition's African elements, and thus
on its potent impurity. Her own radical classicism, therefore, is central to the
transformation of America that her novels envision
Morrison, R V, NX45870
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/406292Surname: MORRISON. Given Name(s) or Initials: R V. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX45870. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 9557.247405
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Extraterritoriality of Securities Law Redux: Litigation Five Years After Morrison v. National Australia Bank
No full textIn the famous Morrison v. National Australia Bank case, Justice Scalia mounted an attack on plaintiffs with tenuous connection to U.S. capital markets and attempted to rein in class actions against international corporations. Despite Morrison’s broad implications, there is no consensus on its ultimate impact. This Article contributes to this discussion by examining the risk of litigation faced by foreign firms before and after Morrison. The research reviews securities class actions between 2005 and 2015. The timeframe of the reported filings is from January 2005 through December 2015, i.e., about five years before and five years after Morrison. The Article reports data obtained from the filings and related court decisions, updated as of November 30, Extraterritoriality of Securities Law Redux: Litigation Five Years After Morrison v. National Australia Bank 2016. The Article concludes that, first, the actual risk of litigation has become more ascertainable and slightly lower than before Morrison. Second, Morrison affected the composition of the plaintiffs’ class. Based on mean and median settlement values, Morrison may be associated with lower litigation costs. Third, the results suggest that when firms select a cross-listing mode (i.e., an exchange listing or OTC trading), they effectively choose their level of commitment to U.S. markets through not only the ex-ante known reporting costs, but also projected litigation costs. Fourth, the research reviews the timing of settlements and dismissals vis-à-vis the types of cross-listing programs. Although more research is needed in this area, Morrison may have enabled foreign firms to rule out inflated assessments of the risk of litigation and to more precisely determine the expected value of their cross-listing programs net of litigation.Peer reviewe
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No full textv. 1-6, by W.A. Henry and F.B. Morrison; v. 7- F.B. Morrison.Mode of access: Internet
Morrison, Marcus V Sgt, [No Service Number]
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/406274Surname: MORRISON. Given Name(s) or Initials: MARCUS V SGT. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: [No Registration Number]. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 13333.247370
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Téma lásky v románech Sula a Beloved od Toni Morrison
Get PDFVe své bakalářské práci porovnávám téma lásky ve dvou knihách první afroamerické spisovatelky, která obdržela Nobelovu cenu - Toni Morrison - a to konkrétně v její druhé knize, Sula, a v její páté knize, Beloved. V obou těchto knihách se Toni Morrison zevrubně zabývá různými druhy a podobami lásky. V úvodu zařazuji Toni Morrison do širšího literárního a kulturně-historického kontextu a nastiňuji situaci, v jaké Morrison byla, když psala tyto knihy. V této souvislosti jsem také načrtla situaci afroamerické ženské literatury té doby. K výběru právě těchto dvou knih mě vedly především společné typy lásek, kterými se Morrison zabývá. Dalším motivem byl fakt, že Morrison popisuje bezpochyby nekonvenční, až kontroverzní příběhy a situace, namísto typických milostných příběhů. Mimo to, lásky i životy hrdinů obou knih jsou silně ovlivněny vnějšími faktory, které vedou k jejich dysfunkci, či zničení. V obou knihách porovnávám mateřskou lásku, sebelásku a lásku mezi ženou a mužem. V románu Sula přibývá navíc téma přátelství, které je stěžejním rozdílem mezi oběma knihami. Nicméně, Sula nemá zvláštní kapitolu na téma sebelásky, protože jednotlivé typy lásek od sebe nelze rozdělit a tento typ bude zahrnut v ostatních kapitolách právě proto, že je s nimi tak pevně spjat. Další společný znak obou knih nás přivádí k...Toni Morrison was born in 1931 as Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio. She studied at Howard University and later at Cornell. She worked as an English teacher, but in 1965 she became a senior editor at the Random House. Thanks to her, many African American works were published. As Henry Louis Gates observes, as a writer, Morrison was influenced by the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and by William Faulkner. Morrison published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. Sula was published in 1974, followed by Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), and Beloved in 1987. In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, becoming the first African American woman to win the prize.1 Morrison continues to publish until the present day; her most recent works include Paradise, Love, and A Mercy. When putting Morrison's work into a wider context, we have to consider the difficulties of African American self-expression in literature. According to Barbara Christian, in the 1970s and 1980s, the time Morrison published most of her novels, African American women writers undertook an exploration of their history and community. They were finally able to express what the previous generations were not, as they were permitted to express themselves in limited ways, due to racism and sexism. Starting with...Department of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesÚstav anglofonních literatur a kulturFaculty of ArtsFilozofická fakult
Komunita v knihách Toni Morrison
No full textCzech Abstract Toni Morrison se zabývá tématem komunity ve větší či menší míře ve všech svých románech. Díky výchově, které se jí dostalo, si vždy byla vědoma role a vlivu, jaký komunita na jedince má. Komunita nás může zachránit, ale i zavrhnout. Toni Morrison věří, že charakter černošské komunity dostál výrazných změn. Její kariéra spisovatelky odráží tyto transformace a odhaluje výraznou změnu autorčina postoje. Tato práce sleduje pomocí anylýz jejích románu The Bluest Eye, vydaného v roce 1970, její třetí knihy napsané o sedm let později, Song of Solomon, a její sedmé knihy z roku 1998, Paradise, způsob, jakým se měnil její pohled na komunitu. Toni Morrison byla jak proti separatismu, tak proti asimilaci černošské komunity. Jako možnou záchranu černošské komunity před rozkladem, ke kterému dochází vlivem hodnot kapitalistické společnosti, Morrison nejprve navrhuje návrat k tradičním africkým hodnotám. Později ve své kariéře se však od této myšlenky odvrací a řešení nalézá v komunitě, která nevylučuje nevhodné a nehodné jedince, ale je otevřená, pečující a inkluzivní. Přechodem od individualismu k individualitě vzniká komunita, která zahrnuje všechny.English Abstract Toni Morrison deals with the topic of community to a greater or lesser extent in all of her books. Being influenced by her own upbringing, she has always been aware of the role community plays in one's life and its influence on an individual. Community can both save you and forsake you. The nature of black community has been changing, according to Morrison, and so has her view of it. Her writing career reflects these alternations, revealing a significant change in her perspective. Looking at her first novel, The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, her third novel written seven years later, Song of Solomon, and her seventh novel, Paradise, written in 1998, this thesis traces the way her position alters throughout the years. Being opposed to both radical separatism and blind assimilation, Morrison first proposed return to traditional African values as the possible cure for the black community destroyed by the forces of capitalist society. Later in her career, however, Morrison changes her ideology and suggests as a remedy a community that does not exclude the unworthy, but is open, caring, and inclusive. By evolving from individualism to individuality, communities that will include everyone can be created.Department of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesÚstav anglofonních literatur a kulturFaculty of ArtsFilozofická fakult
A politics of conversion: nihilism and love in Toni Morrison's fiction
Get PDFTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras.O estudo Uma Política de Conversão: Niilismo e Amor na Ficção de Toni Morrison começa com a idéia de que a Literatura Afro-Americana apresenta um sentido de auto-reflexividade e hibridismo, através do qual autobiografia dialoga com romance, o espiritual se funde com o político. A partir deste traço dialógico a auto-reflexividade é politicamente estabelecida entre niilismo e amor. Na política de conversão, o estudo analisa as formas como mulheres negras, individualmente ou em grupo, fogem da escravidão para a liberdade, avançam da individualidade para a coletividade, ou substituem niilismo por amor. Metodologicamente o estudo apresenta sete capítulos. O primeiro discute os aspectos dialógicos que ilustram as conexões entre narrativas espirituais, de escravos e ficção, entre espiritualidade e política. O segundo examina o diálogo entre a conversão, pregação pública e formação da comunidade em Diário e Experiências Religiosas de Lee. O capítulo sugere que ao afirmar espiritualidade e humanidade a narradora abre profundo espaço para a mulher negra reclamar direitos civis. O terceiro discute o diálogo no interior da política de conversão entre narrativa de escravos e ficção. Este diálogo lida com niilismo e amor em Incidentes de Jacobs e Amada, Sula e O Olho Mais Azul de Morrison. Para a análise de niilismo e amor valores individuais e coletivos são considerados em relação a cinco aspectos: ambiente e agente antagonistas, agente de apoio, propósito da personagem e resultado alcançado. É visível, no estudo, o apoio que certas mulheres recebem de suas comunidades para contra-atacar antagonistas. O apoio nem sempre resulta na superação do niilismo e, por isso, derrota temporária pode ocorrer antes que elas sejam reintegradas à comunidade, como acontece com Linda Brent. O quarto capítulo examina as fraquezas e as energias da política da conversão e a reintegração de Sethe Suggs à comunidade de Bluestone Road. O quinto avalia como a comunidade de Bottom tenta controlar a individualidade de Sula Peace e como um grupo de mulheres lideradas por Nel Wrights consegue resgatar o espírito de independência da heroína. O sexto mostra como a política da conversão das mulheres de Lorain é incapaz de garantir a saúde mental de Pecola Breedlove, mas consegue criar um papel mais consistente para o grupo. No sétimo, a conclusão examina da relação dialética entre niilismo e amor ou auto-amor nas experiências dos indivíduos e dos grupos. O estudo sugere que em Incidentes a busca de Linda Brent por liberdade envolve elementos de autodestruição e de autoempoderamento. Da mesma maneira, o estudo conclui que em Amada o amor que Sethe Suggs tem para as suas crianças mata a própria filha, enfatizando, assim, o desejo de livrá-la da escravidão. Igualmente em Sula, a individualidade de Sula Peace não apenas limita, mas também expande as experiências do grupo, levando-o à emancipação. Finalmente, em O Olho Mais Azul a luta de Pecola Breedlove por amor e beleza reflete auto-ódio ao mesmo tempo em que reconstrói a auto-apreciação de toda a comunidade
Odzivi na delo Toni Morrison na Slovenskem
Get PDFToni Morrison, the first African American female winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is certainly one of the modern artists whose novels have entered the world\u27s modern literary canon. She is one of the most read novelists in the United States, where all of her novels have been bestsellers. However, only Song of Solomon and Beloved have so far been translated into Slovene. There have been several articles or essays written on Toni Morrison but most of them are simply translations of English articles; the only exception is a study by Jerneja Petrič. This paper presents the Slovene translation of Song ofSolomon by Jože Stabej and the articles written on Toni Morrison by Slovene critics. Jože Stabej is so far the only Slovene translator who has translated Toni Morrison. The author of this article uses some Slovene translations from the novel in comparison to the original to show the main differences appearing because of different grammatical structures of both languages and differences in the two cultures. The articles by Slovene critics are primarily resumes or translations of English originals and have been mainly published in magazines specializing in literature.Prva afriško-ameriška Nobelova nagrajenka za literaturo Toni Morrison je vsekakor ena od modernih. ustvarjalk, katere romani so v svetu med najbolj poznanimi. V Združenih državah Amerike je ena najbolj branih romanopisk, saj so bili vsi njeni romani »best-selerji«. Na žalost pa istega ne moremo trditi za slovenske bralce, med katerimi Nobelova nagrajenka še vedno ni našla mesta, ki ji pripada. Do sedaj sta bila v slovenščino prevedena samo romana Song of Salomon in Beloved, pa še ta dva sta v večji meri slovenskemu bralcu neznana. Poleg tega je bilo napisanih o Toni Morrison in njenem delu le približno deset člankov ali spisov, pa še ti so večinoma prevodi angleških člankov; izjema je študija Jerneje Petrič. Članek je predstavitev slovenskega prevoda romana Song of Salomon, ki ga je prevedel Jože Stabej, in člankov, ki so jih o Toni Morrison napisali slovenski kritiki. Jože Stabej je do sedaj edini slovenski prevajalec, ki se je lotil prevajanja romanov Toni Morrison. Avtorica tega članka se posluži nekaterih odlomkov iz slovenskega prevoda romana Song of Salomon in ga primerja z izvirnikom. S tem želi pokazati na tiste razlike med obema jezikoma, do katerih prihaja zaradi različnih slovničnih struktur jezikov in različnih kultur. Članki slovenskih kritikov so večinoma le povzetki ali prevodi angleških izvirnikov in so bili objavljeni v različnih literarnih revijah. Le v redkih slovenskih šolah so dela Toni Morrison del učnega načrta, zato jih le redki dijaki poznajo. Da bi bilo temu drugače, bi morali spremeniti učni načrt, v okviru katerega bi eno izmed poglavij obravnavalo Nobelove nagrajence ali pa bi v okviru pouka angleškega jezika brali odlomke iz njenih del
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