This book examines Toni Morrison's fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant
narratives produced in the white supremacist political imaginary and conceptualize a more
inclusive political imaginary in which black bodies are valued. Herman Beavers closely examines
politics of scale and contentious politics in order to discern Morrison's larger intent of
revealing the deep structure of power relations in black communities that will enable them to
fashion counterhegemonic projects. The volume explores how Morrison stages her ruminations on
the political imaginary in neighborhoods or small towns rooms houses or streets. Beavers
argues that these spatial and domestic geographies are sites where the management of traumatic
injury is integral to establishing a sense of place proposing these tight spaces as sites
where narratives are produced and contested sites of inscription and erasure utterance and
silence.
