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We learn that Milkman's father, Macon, and Macon's sister, Pilate, ran away from home after their father was murdered for protecting his land. These chapters are interspersed with various characters' flashbacks to their pasts. It traces Milkman's life from birth to age thirty-two and focuses on his spiritually empty, aimless life as a young man caught between his father's materialistic lifestyle and Pilate's traditional values.
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Part I (Chapters 1-9) is set in an unnamed town in Michigan - presumably Detroit.
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The narration comprises two distinct sections. The action of Song of Solomon spans thirty-some years. Milkman is mentally enslaved and spiritually dead, but with the help of his eccentric aunt, Pilate, and his best friend, Guitar Bains, he embarks on a physical and spiritual journey that enables him to reconnect with his past and realize his self-worth. Based on the African-American folktale about enslaved Africans who escape slavery by flying back to Africa, it tells the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead, a young man alienated from himself and estranged from his family, his community, and his historical and cultural roots. Pasadena, Calif.Song of Solomon explores the quest for cultural identity. "Essays in this volume provide a clear overview of Toni Morrison and her accomplishments to date, beginning with discussions of Morrison's life and influence, continuing with articles on the critical contexts of her works, and focusing on critical readings of Morrison's involves from The Bluest Eye to Love."-About this volume.ĭigitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDLĮbsco eBook Community College Collection. Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL Henderson - The projection of the beast : subverting mythologies in Toni Morrison's Jazz / Darryl Dickson-Carr - In search of new subjectivity : identity in the novels of Toni Morrison / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis - Prospero's spell and the question of resistance : Tar baby / Gurleen Grewal - Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from The bluest eye to Jazz : the importance of Tar Baby / Malin Walther Pereira - "I been worried sick about you too, Macon" : Toni Morrison, the South, and the oral tradition / Yvonne Atkinson, Philip Page - "Killing the White girl first" : understanding the politics of Black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise / David Ikard - A laying on of hands : Toni Morrison and the materiality of Love / Anissa Janine Wardi. Green - Built on the ashes : the fall of the house of Sutpen and the rise of the house of Sethe / Michael Hogan - Refiguring the flesh : the word, the body, and the rituals of being in Beloved and Go tell it on the mountain / Carol E. Dunn - Morrison's novels as texts, not works / Philip Page - Song of Solomon / Karen Carmean - Crying, dancing, laughing : the breaking and reunification of community in Beloved / Amy M. Bowers - The critical reception of Toni Morrison's work / Jennifer E. Dawes - The Paris review perspective / Sasha Weiss - Toni Morrison : solo flight through literature into history / Trudier Harris - A context for understanding Morrison's work / Susan R. Iyasere - Biography of Toni Morrison / Kwame S.N. Includes bibliographical references and index. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. (OCoLC)fst01411635Įlectronic reproduction. Morrison, Toni - Criticism and interpretation.Ĭriticism, interpretation, etc.