Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing

"[P]erceptive.... Mobley is a capable interpreter of Morrison’s oeuvre.... [L]iterature scholars will appreciate the insights into Morrison’s fiction."-Publishers Weekly
  “In her brilliant study, Marilyn Sanders Mobley creates a voluminous space for readers to explore how Toni Morrison’s work invites us to make meaning for ourselves through her writing. While scholars of Morrison’s oeuvre will no doubt benefit from this intelligent and wide-ranging encounter, Mobley’s greatest achievement, perhaps, is in making anyone feel welcome who comes to Morrison in search of a deeper understanding of how to survive in the worlds we inhabit, from home to society, in our skins and inside the memories we carry. It’s a powerful and learned meditation, and one that deserves a prominent place in the field of Morrison studies.”-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University “What is commendable about Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing is Mobley’s effort to delineate the strategies Morrison uses to achieve her often-stated claim to make ‘spaces for the reader’ in writing her fiction. Mobley pulls together many of the historical, cultural, and artistic influences and connections in Morrison’s work and provides an important contribution to Morrison scholarship. This is a book that many readers have been waiting for.”-Carolyn Denard, Founder and Board Chair of the Toni Morrison Society, and editor of What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction by Toni Morrison "Mobley makes a strong case for demonstrating Toni Morrison's success in creating places and 'spaces' in her texts in order provide a site of memory that stays in the reader's mind.... Summing Up: Recommended."-Choice