The Morrison trilogy

Power and Resistance in Toni Morrison's Sula and Paradise: A Foucauldian Study

“…Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, blends socio-politico-economic concerns of contemporary society in her novels dealing with racism, gender discrimination, class exploitation, the role of the state, justice, democracy, freedom, power, and resistance (Beaulieu, 2003;Lister, 2009;Mbalia, 2004;Tally, 2007;Zamalin et al, 2020). All her novels, from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, are sagas of inhuman suffering.…”

“Comparative Literary History”

“…The concluding chapter on Toni Morrison, a rich and dense analysis of what has been dubbed the "Morrison trilogy" by Justine Tally-Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), and Paradise (1997)-examines how her challenges to the "reading protocol," to borrow from Leonard Diepeveen as James does, testify to her inroads into formal innovation and narrative. 3 These instances highlight the "intensity and ethical importance" of reader participation in the construction of the novel because they transform the intensely personal experience of reading into one that encourages social change …”

Comparative literary history

“…The concluding chapter on Toni Morrison, a rich and dense analysis of what has been dubbed the "Morrison trilogy" by Justine Tally-Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), and Paradise (1997)-examines how her challenges to the "reading protocol," to borrow from Leonard Diepeveen as James does, testify to her inroads into formal innovation and narrative. 3 These instances highlight the "intensity and ethical importance" of reader participation in the construction of the novel because they transform the intensely personal experience of reading into one that encourages social change (181-83 Setting aside these questions, however, James presents literary scholars and interested academics with a useful and much-needed study of contemporary literature. Modernist Futures not only helps to shape a burgeoning field of literary study shaped by a temporal moment but advances critical work done on the key figures it examines.…”