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The postmodern metanarratives and chronotope : reading space and time in Toni Morrison's a Mercy
Other Title(s)
سرديات ما بعد الحداثة و الإطار الزمكاني : قراءة المكان و الزمان في رواية "رحمة" للكاتبة توني موريسون
Author
al-Jafi, Lamis Muhammad Muhammad Abd al-Hamid
Source
Journal of Arts and Humanities
Issue
Vol. 92, Issue 1 (31 Jan. 2021), pp.147-165, 19 p.
Publisher
Minia University Faculty of Arts
Publication Date
2021-01-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
19
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
This paper tends to explore the counter discourse of a prominent Africa-American novelist; Toni Morrison.
Time is materialized in space, and as a consequence, distinctive chronotopes appear pleading for an authoritative image and identity.
The chronotopic discourse in Morrison's A Mercy belongs to a period which is accounted as a cornerstone in the history of the American nation.
A Mercy goes back to the start of the epoch of slavery in the seventeenth century America.
Though the space in Morrison's A Mercy is plantations, it seems to accentuate the theme of slavery through depicting various forms of it.
The paper investigates a very distinguished novel, A Mercy, which is accounted as revolutionary in the vein of the writings of Toni Morrison.
The human basis of the writings of Morrison creates an inter/trans counter discourse.
It revives the history of her nation in search for eliminating corruption through introducing a metanarrative for local and small narratives so as to legitimize the various versions of "the truth" in two crucial transitional periods in the African-American history according to which the features of the modern history of the nations are formed.
The novel defies the prevalent metanarratives on slavery and corruption in a postcolonial realm.
It also legitimizes a modern pluralistic view of the history of its nations by disseminating a new type of knowledge invoking metanarratives of freedom whose hero is humanity.
In the postcolonial counter discourse of Morrison, Bakhtin's approach of chronotope and Lyotard's concept of metanarratives are intertwined.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Jafi, Lamis Muhammad Muhammad Abd al-Hamid. 2021. The postmodern metanarratives and chronotope : reading space and time in Toni Morrison's a Mercy. Journal of Arts and Humanities،Vol. 92, no. 1, pp.147-165.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1030326
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Jafi, Lamis Muhammad Muhammad Abd al-Hamid. The postmodern metanarratives and chronotope : reading space and time in Toni Morrison's a Mercy. Journal of Arts and Humanities Vol. 92, no. 1 (2021), pp.147-165.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1030326
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Jafi, Lamis Muhammad Muhammad Abd al-Hamid. The postmodern metanarratives and chronotope : reading space and time in Toni Morrison's a Mercy. Journal of Arts and Humanities. 2021. Vol. 92, no. 1, pp.147-165.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1030326
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
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Record ID
BIM-1030326