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FICTIONALIZING SIGNIFYING IN TONI MORRISON'S NOVELS

Love and Nihilism in the Lives of Sethe Suggs, Sula Peace and Pecola Breedlove

About the Book

“Fictionalizing Signifyin(g) in Toni Morrison’s Novels” comprises five interconnected articles on how Gates’s concept of Signifyin(g) amalgamates black women’s experiences with Henderson’s notion of self-reflexiveness in black writing. From the perspective of black dialogical intertextuality and the call-and-response phenomenon, this book amplifies my previous discussion of black women’s spiritual and political conversion in Jarena Lee’s spiritual tale and Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative. (See Martins, 2018) My decision to propose this publication as a sequence to the previous work associates Toni Morrison’s black women’s experiences with Lee’s spiritual life, along with Linda Brent’s political living, through a methodological apparatus of five analytical elements: antagonizing setting and agent, supporting agent, women’s purposes, and the narratives’ outcome. Methodological organization makes feasible the establishment of the validity of Henderson’s self-reflexiveness and Gates’s Signifyin(g), both as conversational or dialogical glue joining the texts together through their racial content and narrating development.

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Signifyin(g) as Black Translation in Postcolonial Experience

Signifyin(g) upon Tony Morrison’s Postblackness

A Cor Errada de Shakespeare

The Wrong Color of Shakespeare

Slave Women's Conversion in Spiritual and Political Black Narratives

FICTIONALIZING SIGNIFYING IN TONI MORRISON'S NOVELS

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José Endoença Martins

José Endoença Martins is an Afro-Brazilian professor who, besides writing poetry, fiction and academic studies, has been conducting research on the autobiographies of the 19th century black slave narrators in USA and Cuba. He has obtained one Ph.D. degree in Literary Studies and another in Translation Studies. He published two books through Lambert.

Dr. Endoença Martins has published more than 20 books involving literary experiences of authors of African descent. His researches include Gates’s concept of Signifyin(g) and its implications on black literature.

Besides Portuguese, he writes in other languages, among which are English, French, and Spanish.