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"Fadem's surprising and singular book works closely with Morrison's Beloved to show the reader how the call for justice is made. That call does not arrive as a manifesto or a platform, but through a searing set of intertextual moments that make clear how hard and how necessary the appeal to truth is by those who struggle still with the reverberating history of enslavement. The novel makes the case for reparations through an emphatically literary means and form, developing a poetics worthy of racial justice. Drawing on prior genres of tragedy, Morrison is shown to develop a new lineage and a new vision, one in which the last vestiges of slavery vanish from the earth. This book shows us the power of literary form as it struggles with intertextual allies, the power of poetics to lay claim to a future of truer reparations." Judith Butler, UC Berkeley
"This book represents a timely and cutting edge addition to the field of Morrison scholarship. Adopting a critical standpoint rarely employed in interpreting Beloved--a focus on the object versus the image, the conventional way of approaching Morrison’s texts--it offers a groundbreaking understanding of the 1987 novel as a postmodern tragedy. Looking at Beloved from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective, Fadem's analysis contributes to the political progressive struggle underway in the contemporary U.S. regarding social justice and reparations." Mar Gallego, University of Huelva
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Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison's "Beloved": The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy- a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a "novel-tragedy" (Kliger)-and a novel of objects. Les mer
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"Fadem's surprising and singular book works closely with Morrison's Beloved to show the reader how the call for justice is made. That call does not arrive as a manifesto or a platform, but through a searing set of intertextual moments that make clear how hard and how necessary the appeal to truth is by those who struggle still with the reverberating history of enslavement. The novel makes the case for reparations through an emphatically literary means and form, developing a poetics worthy of racial justice. Drawing on prior genres of tragedy, Morrison is shown to develop a new lineage and a new vision, one in which the last vestiges of slavery vanish from the earth. This book shows us the power of literary form as it struggles with intertextual allies, the power of poetics to lay claim to a future of truer reparations." Judith Butler, UC Berkeley
"This book represents a timely and cutting edge addition to the field of Morrison scholarship. Adopting a critical standpoint rarely employed in interpreting Beloved--a focus on the object versus the image, the conventional way of approaching Morrison’s texts--it offers a groundbreaking understanding of the 1987 novel as a postmodern tragedy. Looking at Beloved from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective, Fadem's analysis contributes to the political progressive struggle underway in the contemporary U.S. regarding social justice and reparations." Mar Gallego, University of Huelva
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