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Article: "Impossible mourning" in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Michele Roberts's 'Daughters of the House.'
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Why these two texts together? Can the link between one of the most celebrated African American texts of recent years and an Anglo-French writer's latest novel be anything but cryptic? Toni Morrison's oeurre has fostered a massive critical industry; Beloved alone is the subject of some thirty articles. Michele Roberts has been an important, but resolutely marginalized presence on the British literary scene, her work shunted off into the area of programmatic feminist texts, with Daughters of the House somewhat patronizingly described as a breakthrough novel. Given the disjunctions of cultural history, ethnicity, and literary tradition between their sites of production, does ...