Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison

1. Introduction
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Part I. North

2. Held in the Thrall: Morrison’s Southern Men and the Arrested Motion of Tight Space
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3. From Zero to Nowhere: Tight Space and the Topophilia of Violence
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4. The Housing of Hurt: The Optic of Tight Space in Jazz

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Part II. South

5. A Measure of Last Resort: Limerence and the Geometrical Shape of Community in Love

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6. A Pox on All Your Houses: Susceptibility, Immunity, and the Dilemma of Allegory in A Mercy

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7. The Most Absurd Garments Space-Time Can Imagine: Home’s Precarious Counter-Topography
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Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, African American Culture