Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 12:28:05 est
Subject: Re: Toni Morrison and survival


     This is certainly an interesting excerpt, but I'm not sure what you 
     are suggesting.  This statement refers to "ontological structures and 
     mythical thought systems" developed by *people of African descent* "to 
     define and reinforce *their* definitions of self and existence." I'm 
     concerned with a writer who is *not* of African descent appropriating 
     racist discourse to unify her plot. Please explain what you want me to 
     take from the quotation.
     
     jc


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Subject: Toni Morrison and survival
Author:  postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu at INTERNET
Date:    7/11/95 3:16 PM


In this discussion of the women in Like Water for Chocolate, and to address 
the stereotype of African heritage and the concept of magical realism, I 
submit an observation by W. Lawrence Hogue in his book, Discourse and the 
Other. Hogue in commenting of Toni Morrison's book: "Sula" states that:
     "Morrison is concerned with the ontological structures and mythical
thought systems, outside those appropriated by the dominant society, that 
blacks developed to define and reinforce their definitions of self and 
existence. In short, Morrison in Sula is concened with . . . belief 
structures, and the "reality" they produce, that emanate from a non-rational 
Afro-American source. (Hogue 133)."
     
     
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