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Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

von Toni Morrison

Fiction Literature African American Literature
ISBN

0394497848

Verlag

Knopf Publishing Group

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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African American literature Magical realism Family saga 20th century American literature Identity Heritage Coming of age Social issues Race relations Friendship Love Adventure Mysticism Toni Morrison Classic literature Cultural heritage Literary fiction Generational conflict Self-discovery Midwestern United States Black experience Historical fiction Emotional depth Symbolism Complex characters Narrative style

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Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man, Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward... We see Milkman growing up in his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother, beginning to move outward--through his profound love and combat with his friend Guitar...through Guitar's mad and loving commitment to the secret avengers called the Seven Days...through Milkman's exotic, imprisoning affair with his love-blind cousin, Hagar...and through his unconscious apprenticeship to his mystical Aunt Pilate, who saved his life before he was born. And we follow him as he strikes out alone; moving first toward adventure and then--as the unspoken truth about his family and his own buried heritage announces itself--toward an adventurous and crucial embrace of life. This is a novel that expresses, with passion, tenderness, and a magnificence of language, the mysterious primal essence of family bond and conflict, the feelings and experience of all people wanting, and striving, to be alive.

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