The Toni Morrison Dreams | Style
Literary Allusion
Alexander uses literary allusion in her poem “The Toni Morrison Dreams” by making reference to other literary works. In the second part of the poem, one of the strategies Morrison suggests is to adapt the 1907 play Playboy of the Western World to a contemporary stage. The assumption is that the workshop participants know this work by the late-nineteenth-century Irish playwright, John Millington Synge. The play is about a son’s rebellion against his father and the way in which the son is evaluated by others. In order to try out...
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