Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Journal issue | 57 | 2023
Research Article | Enchantment as a Subversive force in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child
Enchantment as a Subversive force in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child
Abstract
There is a substantial body of scholarship arguing for the relevance of magic realism to Toni Morrison’s fictional production, with one exception being her last novel God Help the Child, which, in that respect, has been remarkably overlooked. The present paper intends to fill this scholarly gap by focusing on what Morrison called “enchantment”, a powerful blend of magic and realism that she employed to represent a host of racial and ancestral issues of Blackness, often of a traumatic kind.
Submitted: April 17, 2023 | Accepted: July 11, 2023 | Published Oct. 30, 2023 | Language: en
Keywords Magical realism • Colorism • God Help the Child • Toni Morrison • Enchantment
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