Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part1 : Theoretical Background
Chapter1 : Bakhtin's Chronotope Theory
Section1 : "Epic and Novel"
Section2 : "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel"
Section3 : "The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism"
Chapter2: Chronotope Criticisms
Section1 : Generic Chronotope
Section2 : Chronotopic Motifs
Section3 : Chronotopic Interaction
Part2 : Morrison and Chronotope
Chapter3 : Morrison's "Given" Chronotope
Section1 : "Chronotope of the Folk"
Section2 : "Chronotope of the Threshold"
Chapter4 : Morrison and Gendered Chronotopes
Section1 : "Chronotope oftheHouse"
Section2 : "Sharable" Chronotope
Chapter5 : Polychronotope
Section1 : Polychronotope of Characters
Section2 : Polychronotope and Textual Hierarchy
Section3 : Polychronotope Formed by Gapsi n Sula
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index