Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts

Bennett, Juda

State University of New York Press（2014/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 215 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438453552
• DDC分類 813.54

Full Description

Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.

Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts radically intervenes in one of the most established and sacred topics in Toni Morrison scholarship, love. Moving beyond Morrison's representation of ghosts as the forgotten or occluded past, Juda Bennett uncovers how Morrison imagines the spectral sphere as always already queer, a provocation and challenge to heteronormativity-with the ghost appearing as an active participant in disruptions of compulsory heterosexuality, as a figure embodying closet desires, or as a disembodied emanation that counterpoints homophobia. From The Bluest Eye to Home, Morrison's novels have included many queer ghosts that challenge our most cherished conceptions of love and speak to cultural anxieties about black sexualities, gay marriage, AIDS, lesbian visibility, and transgender identities. Not surprisingly, the scene-stealing ghost Beloved appears at the very heart of this book, but Bennett cautions against interpretative stasis, inviting readers to break free of the stranglehold Beloved has had on imaginations, so as not to miss the full force of Morrison's lifelong project to queer love.

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Spirit: Sula Haunts Beloved

3. Houses: Beloved Haunts Paradise

4. Matriarchy: Paradise Haunts Love

5. Music: Love Haunts Song of Solomon

6. Voice: Song of Solomon Haunts Jazz

7. Blackness: Jazz Haunts Tar Baby

8. Whiteness: Tar Baby Haunts A Mercy

9. Mutable Bodies:  The Bluest Eye Haunts Home

10. Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index