... editor at the publishing firm Random House when she was editing a nineteenth century article which was in a historical book and found the basis for this story. A direct connection between Morrison and this novel is best demonstrated by Morrison's statement of " I deal with five years of terror in a pathological society, living in ... , Snitow believes that Morrison sets herself apart from other writers by rejecting irony. She sees the novel as mixing the grotesque with passion and romance; not just irony or zaniness, which is what is normally mixed in contemporary fiction. Furthermore, S...

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