Community, Therapies, and Alternative Spiritualities in Toni Morrison’s Home
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This article discusses the notions of home, community, and alternative spiritualities in Toni Morrison’s novel Home as spaces of healing and empowerment of black subjects. Drawing from the field of trauma studies, cultural anthropology, and religious studies, the analysis examines the main characters’ return to their hometown as a meditation on black history, the black body, and black spiritualities. It focuses especially on the rituals, local therapies, and black spiritualities black communities have developed as means for physical and psychological healing.
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