Jennings, La Vinia Delois. — Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa

Although the title of this study has a philosophical ring to it, what La Vinia Jennings actually does is to trace religious figures or motifs of African origin in Toni Morrison’s fiction. This is not an easy task, as she implicitly admits in her first section and introduction: “Finding the elusive but identifiable blackness within the culture out of which Toni Morrison writes.” Out of the six sections of the book, four are dedicated to the search of figures and/or motifs: section 2 “Kongo’s Y

Sociology · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies