Reading in the Wake: Empathy Debates, "The Reader," and Toni Morrison's: God Help the Child.

Toni Morrison's 2015 novel God Help the Child complicates both naive celebrations and outright rejections of empathy as one of reading's goals. Explicating the protagonist Bride's journey as a primer in empathy, I argue that in centring a Black protagonist as Everyreader, Morrison undermines the imp...

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Publicado en:	University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 713 - 736
Autor principal:	WALLACE, CYNTHIA R.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Toronto Press Fall2021
Materias:	Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019 God Help the Child (Book : Morrison) Protagonists (Persons) in literature Cognitive psychology Cognitive therapy Black Arts Movement (Literary period)
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