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Macon Dead, Joe Trace, and Son Green can each be understood as figures held in the thrall of aspiration, consternation, and rage, the by-products of an overriding sense of estrangement. As such it would be easy to infer that these particular characters are synonymous with failure.
Well, how do colored people get where they want to go?
—Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
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Beavers, H. (2018). Held in the Thrall: Morrison’s Southern Men and the Arrested Motion of Tight Space. In: Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65999-2_2
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