Home (Morrison Novel) Toni Morrison

In "The Historical Novel Today: Or, is it still Possible?", Frederic Jameson considers the various difficulties which face the historical novel today. Especially relevant to the essay, are his ideas on imagined time in the historical novel....

Home is a novel by distinguished writer Toni Morrison that explores the story of Frank, an African American man returning home post the Korean War, and his naïve and uneducated sister Cee. The novel takes us through the evolution of these...