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How to speak about the unspeakable : historical trauma in Toni Morrison's and Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Native American
African American
trauma
religious syncretism history
In my paper I would like to focus on the problem of incorporating the historical experience of marginalized groups into fiction. Toni Morrison and Linda Hogan have decided to refer to two historical processes that have been long silenced in the official American history, i.e. Black slavery and ethnic holocaust of Native Americans. In the novels of Morrison and Hogan these collective experiences emerge as counter-histories told from the perspective of the survivors. The perspective is respectively African-American and Native-American and both writers additionally include the voices of the victims that were particularly neglected because their deaths were not precisely recorded; Morrison dedicated her novel to the Blacks who did not survive the Middle Passage and Hogan concentrated on the Indian inhabitants of the islands on the lakes between contemporary U.S. and Canada who died anonymously in great numbers and belonged to the less known Native American cultures. What is more, both Morrison and Hogan were inspired by true stories; Morrison used the story of Margaret Garner and Hogan that of her adopted daughter Mary. It is also worth mentioning that in both cases tragedy stemmed from the fact that desperate mothers decided to kill their daughters and Morrison as well as Hogan used these individual dramas to speak about collective traumas of African-Americans and Native-Americans.
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dc.abstract.en | In my paper I would like to focus on the problem of incorporating the historical experience of marginalized groups into fiction. Toni Morrison and Linda Hogan have decided to refer to two historical processes that have been long silenced in the official American history, i.e. Black slavery and ethnic holocaust of Native Americans. In the novels of Morrison and Hogan these collective experiences emerge as counter-histories told from the perspective of the survivors. The perspective is respectively African-American and Native-American and both writers additionally include the voices of the victims that were particularly neglected because their deaths were not precisely recorded; Morrison dedicated her novel to the Blacks who did not survive the Middle Passage and Hogan concentrated on the Indian inhabitants of the islands on the lakes between contemporary U.S. and Canada who died anonymously in great numbers and belonged to the less known Native American cultures. What is more, both Morrison and Hogan were inspired by true stories; Morrison used the story of Margaret Garner and Hogan that of her adopted daughter Mary. It is also worth mentioning that in both cases tragedy stemmed from the fact that desperate mothers decided to kill their daughters and Morrison as well as Hogan used these individual dramas to speak about collective traumas of African-Americans and Native-Americans. | pl |
dc.affiliation | WydziaĆ StudiĂłw MiÄdzynarodowych i Politycznych : Instytut Amerykanistyki i StudiĂłw Polonijnych | pl |
dc.contributor.author | Gondor-Wiercioch, Agnieszka - 198486 | pl |
dc.contributor.editor | Ćobodziec, Agnieszka | pl |
dc.contributor.editor | Fondo, Blossom N. | pl |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-23T09:34:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-23T09:34:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | pl |
dc.description.additional | Bibliogr. s. 29-30 | pl |
dc.description.physical | 13-30 | pl |
dc.description.publication | 1 | pl |
dc.description.series | New Americanists in Poland | |
dc.description.seriesnumber | 8 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3726/b11081 | pl |
dc.identifier.eisbn | 978-3-653-06829-0 | pl |
dc.identifier.eisbn | 978-3-631-70479-0 | pl |
dc.identifier.eisbn | 978-3-631-70480-6 | pl |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-631-67262-4 | pl |
dc.identifier.seriesissn | 2191-2254 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/45549 | |
dc.language | eng | pl |
dc.language.container | eng | pl |
dc.pubinfo | Frankfurt am Main | pl |
dc.pubinfo | Bern | pl |
dc.pubinfo | Bruxelles | pl |
dc.pubinfo | New York | pl |
dc.pubinfo | Oxford | pl |
dc.pubinfo | Warszawa | pl |
dc.pubinfo | Wien : Peter Lang Edition | pl |
dc.publisher.ministerial | Peter Lang Publishing Group | pl |
dc.rights | DodajÄ tylko opis bibliograficzny | * |
dc.rights.licence | bez licencji | |
dc.rights.uri | * | |
dc.sourceinfo | liczba autorĂłw 9; liczba stron 168; liczba arkuszy wydawniczych 10,5; | pl |
dc.subject.en | Native American | pl |
dc.subject.en | African American | pl |
dc.subject.en | trauma | pl |
dc.subject.en | religious syncretism history | pl |
dc.subtype | Article | pl |
dc.title | How to speak about the unspeakable : historical trauma in Toni Morrison's and Linda Hogan's Solar Storms | pl |
dc.title.container | The timeless Toni Morrson : the past and the present in Toni Morrison's fiction : a tribute to Toni Morrison on occasion of her 85th birthday | pl |
dc.type | BookSection | pl |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |