Tessa Roynon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tessa Roynon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Roynon |
| SIGNATURE | ROYNON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black women's complicated laughter and Toni Morrison's post-migration novels
Toni Morrison is not conventionally viewed as a humourist or comic novelist; her chosen subject-matter has inevitably led critics to explore the bleak, tragic and painful dimensions of her writing.Her deployment of both comic anger and of the absurd dimensions of black American history, however, has yet to be properly recognised. This article does not seek to demonstrate Morrison’s place within the tradition of African American women’s politicise…
Constructing Selfhood Through Re-Voicing the Classical Past: Bernardine Evaristo, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Robin Coste Lewis
This essay examines three works by three women writers whose strategies for rewriting the past include a revisionary engagement with the cultural legacies of Ancient Greece and Rome: The Emperor's Babe: A Novel (Bernardine Evaristo, 2001), Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Marlene NourbeSe Philip, 1991), and Voyage of the Sable Venus (Robin Coste Lewis, 2015). It argues that each embodies a mode of resistance that both protests the …
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic
The New York Times Magazine recently published an extensive profile of Toni Morrison and her work, timed to anticipate the publication of her latest novel, God Bless the Child (2015). Its author, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, sets out two conventional but apparently conflicting ways of reading the Morrisonian oeuvre . One way of understanding her corpus is as “a history that stretches across 11 novels and just as many geographies and eras to tell a stor…
Lobbying the reader: Toni Morrison’s recent forewords to her novels
This article examines the eight forewords, written by Morrison herself, that accompany all the recent Vintage editions of the novels except A Mercy (2008) and Home (2012). It reads them as a significant yet little-discussed contribution to her corpus of non-fiction work. Examining how the forewords came about and their apparent purpose, I collate the new perspectives they provide on Morrison’s narrative project, the insights they contain about Am…
Discovery, Conquest, and Settlement
This chapter argues that Morrison's engagement with the classical tradition in Tar Baby and Love enables her revisionary perspective on European constructions of America's origins. It demonstrates that through engagement with Ovid's Metamorphoses, Ovid's Fasti, in particular with the myth of Prosperpina/Kore and the legend of Lucretia, the novelist challenges mythologized accounts of America's discovery and early settlement by Europeans as a glor…
Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture
"In this volume, Royon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Royon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and religious ritual make their presence felt in Morrison's writing."--Provided by publisher
The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison has written some of the most significant and demanding fiction of the modern age. Her dazzling depictions of African-American experience are studied in high schools and colleges, debated in the media and analyzed by scholars at an astounding rate. This Introduction offers readers a guide to the world of Morrison in all its complexity, from her status as a key player on the global intellectual stage to her unique perspective on Ameri…
African AthenaNew Agendas
The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the ‘fabrication of Greece’ and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history. The transportation of e…
The Africanness of Classicism in the Work of Toni Morrison
African Athena: New Agendas
Her Dark Materials: John Milton, Toni Morrison, and Concepts of "Dominion" in A Mercy
Her Dark Materials: John Milton, Toni Morrison, and Concepts of “Dominion” in A Mercy Tessa Roynon (bio) Introduction In Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel, A Mercy, the mistress Rebekka Vaark gives the journeying Florens an authenticating letter that twice describes their domicile as “Milton” (110). Appearing two-thirds of the way through the novel, this detail strongly suggests what has been only hinted at until this point: that the writings of John Mi…
Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa, by La Vinia Delois Jennings, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008, x+247 pp., £50/$95, ISBN 978-0-521-88504-1 This monograph is a long-over
Toni Morrison and Classical Tradition
This article summarizes a significant new approach to the work of the African‐American novelist Toni Morrison: analysis of her widespread engagement with classical tradition. After discussing the prior critical perspectives on this subject, and highlighting the importance of the classics in Morrison's intellectual formation, it demonstrates that the author's ambivalent classicism is central to the rewriting of American history that her oeuvre ena…
Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture
"In this volume, Royon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Royon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and religious ritual make their presence felt in Morrison's writing."--Provided by publisher
Constructing Selfhood Through Re-Voicing the Classical Past: Bernardine Evaristo, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Robin Coste Lewis
This essay examines three works by three women writers whose strategies for rewriting the past include a revisionary engagement with the cultural legacies of Ancient Greece and Rome: The Emperor's Babe: A Novel (Bernardine Evaristo, 2001), Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Marlene NourbeSe Philip, 1991), and Voyage of the Sable Venus (Robin Coste Lewis, 2015). It argues that each embodies a mode of resistance that both protests the …
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic
The New York Times Magazine recently published an extensive profile of Toni Morrison and her work, timed to anticipate the publication of her latest novel, God Bless the Child (2015). Its author, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, sets out two conventional but apparently conflicting ways of reading the Morrisonian oeuvre . One way of understanding her corpus is as “a history that stretches across 11 novels and just as many geographies and eras to tell a stor…
Toni Morrison and Classical Tradition
This article summarizes a significant new approach to the work of the African‐American novelist Toni Morrison: analysis of her widespread engagement with classical tradition. After discussing the prior critical perspectives on this subject, and highlighting the importance of the classics in Morrison's intellectual formation, it demonstrates that the author's ambivalent classicism is central to the rewriting of American history that her oeuvre ena…
Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa, by La Vinia Delois Jennings, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008, x+247 pp., £50/$95, ISBN 978-0-521-88504-1 This monograph is a long-over
African AthenaNew Agendas
The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the ‘fabrication of Greece’ and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history. The transportation of e…
The Africanness of Classicism in the Work of Toni Morrison
African Athena: New Agendas
Her Dark Materials: John Milton, Toni Morrison, and Concepts of "Dominion" in A Mercy
Her Dark Materials: John Milton, Toni Morrison, and Concepts of “Dominion” in A Mercy Tessa Roynon (bio) Introduction In Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel, A Mercy, the mistress Rebekka Vaark gives the journeying Florens an authenticating letter that twice describes their domicile as “Milton” (110). Appearing two-thirds of the way through the novel, this detail strongly suggests what has been only hinted at until this point: that the writings of John Mi…
The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison has written some of the most significant and demanding fiction of the modern age. Her dazzling depictions of African-American experience are studied in high schools and colleges, debated in the media and analyzed by scholars at an astounding rate. This Introduction offers readers a guide to the world of Morrison in all its complexity, from her status as a key player on the global intellectual stage to her unique perspective on Ameri…
Discovery, Conquest, and Settlement
This chapter argues that Morrison's engagement with the classical tradition in Tar Baby and Love enables her revisionary perspective on European constructions of America's origins. It demonstrates that through engagement with Ovid's Metamorphoses, Ovid's Fasti, in particular with the myth of Prosperpina/Kore and the legend of Lucretia, the novelist challenges mythologized accounts of America's discovery and early settlement by Europeans as a glor…
Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture
"In this volume, Royon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Royon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and religious ritual make their presence felt in Morrison's writing."--Provided by publisher
Lobbying the reader: Toni Morrison’s recent forewords to her novels
This article examines the eight forewords, written by Morrison herself, that accompany all the recent Vintage editions of the novels except A Mercy (2008) and Home (2012). It reads them as a significant yet little-discussed contribution to her corpus of non-fiction work. Examining how the forewords came about and their apparent purpose, I collate the new perspectives they provide on Morrison’s narrative project, the insights they contain about Am…
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic
The New York Times Magazine recently published an extensive profile of Toni Morrison and her work, timed to anticipate the publication of her latest novel, God Bless the Child (2015). Its author, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, sets out two conventional but apparently conflicting ways of reading the Morrisonian oeuvre . One way of understanding her corpus is as “a history that stretches across 11 novels and just as many geographies and eras to tell a stor…
Constructing Selfhood Through Re-Voicing the Classical Past: Bernardine Evaristo, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Robin Coste Lewis
This essay examines three works by three women writers whose strategies for rewriting the past include a revisionary engagement with the cultural legacies of Ancient Greece and Rome: The Emperor's Babe: A Novel (Bernardine Evaristo, 2001), Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Marlene NourbeSe Philip, 1991), and Voyage of the Sable Venus (Robin Coste Lewis, 2015). It argues that each embodies a mode of resistance that both protests the …
Black women's complicated laughter and Toni Morrison's post-migration novels
Toni Morrison is not conventionally viewed as a humourist or comic novelist; her chosen subject-matter has inevitably led critics to explore the bleak, tragic and painful dimensions of her writing.Her deployment of both comic anger and of the absurd dimensions of black American history, however, has yet to be properly recognised. This article does not seek to demonstrate Morrison’s place within the tradition of African American women’s politicise…
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