Critique [of Perception and Power Through Naming
[Characters in Search of Self in the Fiction of Toni Morrison by Linda Buck Myers]
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18953265 |
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| Authors | Neil Nakadate (Iowa State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-53 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic studies review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1555-1881 • E-ISSN: 2576-2915 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ees.1984.7.1.52 |
| OpenAlex | W2726609815 |
| Language | EN |
In "Stranger in the Village" (1953), James Baldwin asserted that "the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it." In her article on naming in Toni Morrison's novels, Linda Buck Myers asks us to consider Morrison's insights regarding who does the controlling and how. In the end Myers offers us a number of useful and provocative observations regarding language and our uses of it as they inform ethnic experience
Art · Perception · Physics · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Neuroscience · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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