The Postmodern Metanarratives and Chronotope: Reading Space and Time in Toni Morrison's A Mercy | ||||
| مجلة الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 92, Issue 1, January 2021, Page 269-293 PDF (422.82 K) | ||||
| Document Type: مقالات بحثیة | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjhj.2020.45280.1058 | ||||
 View on SCiNiTO | ||||
| Author | ||||
لاميس محمد محمد عبد الحميد الجافي 
| ||||
| کلية الألسن جامعة المنيا | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Keywords: Metanarratives; Chronotope; A Mercy | ||||
|
Statistics Article View: 173 PDF Download: 394 |
||||
