Southern Geographical Space and Political Imagination in Toni Morrison's Novels

About This Novel

This book mainly takes the geographical space of the American South in the novels of African American writer Toni Morrison as the entry point to study the relationship between the specific writing of geographical space and the political imagination of the work. This book explores Morrison's novels from four aspects: the relationship between black youth's physical practice and racial identity, historical memory and political ideals, the ethical concerns of diaspora groups in the era of globalization, and the special significance of the American South to contemporary black groups under the perspective of modernity. The study found that the southern geographical space in Morrison's novels has obvious political imagination and appeal. From the early shaping of the black spiritual home to the mid-term exploration of diverse residential areas, to the later conception of an ideal home, the meaning of this space shows a tendency to return from the later to the early stages, making the writer's spatial conception of the American South form an approximate ring structure. Finally, this book believes that the fictional American South embodies Morrison's concern for the historical and realistic situation of the black group and his emphasis on black culture. The three-dimensional and diverse space exploration in the work also presents the writer's complex mentality as a minority elite while defending the interests of the ethnic group and the nation-state.

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