Toni Morrison [electronic resource] : an ethical poetics / Yvette Christiansë.

Introduction
From witnessing to death dealing: on speaking of and for the dead
Burnt offerings: law and sacrifice
Time out of joint: the temporal logic of Morrison's modernist apocalyptics
Beginning and ending, part one: old languages/new bodies
Beginnings and endings, part two: the poetics of similitude and disavowal at utopia's gates
Epilogue.