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Introduction: Love and narrative form
Maternal language and maternal history in Beloved
Riffing on love and playing with narration in Jazz
Displacement
political, psychic, and textual
in Paradise
Love's time and the reader: ethical effects of nachträglichkeit (belatedness) in Love
Failed messages, maternal loss, and narrative form in A mercy
Severed limbs, the uncanny, and the return of the repressed in Home
Love, trauma, and the body in God help the child
Conclusion: Revisioning love and slavery.
Maternal language and maternal history in Beloved
Riffing on love and playing with narration in Jazz
Displacement
political, psychic, and textual
in Paradise
Love's time and the reader: ethical effects of nachträglichkeit (belatedness) in Love
Failed messages, maternal loss, and narrative form in A mercy
Severed limbs, the uncanny, and the return of the repressed in Home
Love, trauma, and the body in God help the child
Conclusion: Revisioning love and slavery.