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The competing worlds of Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison's two main novels contain characteristic features which contrast and at the same time bring together two fictional patterns. These include chronological irregularity against a mixture of temporal layers, history against contemporaneity, vitality against decadence, spiritual emptiness against emancipated self-awareness. Both penetrate into secrets of origin, guilt and victimization. In both myths function as contemporary stories underpinned by formalised communal interventions very close to rituals.

double consciousness, slavery, prolepsis, tradition, opposition, supernaturalism

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