Paradise (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Toni Morrison
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Sin or Original sin, God, Spiritual life or spirituality, Good and evil, Survivalism, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: Ruby, OK
Toni Morrison's Paradise explores a little-known fact of African American history: the migration of African Americans to the West after the Civil War. Like many whites who went west in the latter half of the nineteenth century, African Americans who migrated west sought a better life. In the case of African Americans, however, a central facet of that better life was isolation from white discrimination. For that reason, black townships were formed in Oklahoma and Texas. Morrison's novel focuses upon a fictional township called Ruby in the state of Oklahoma during the 1970's. Ruby...
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