ABSTRACT
Opening with a reflection on The Black Book as a kind of archive and its significance for Morrison’s writing, this concluding chapter draws the book’s main findings together, suggesting that the ideas of joining, emphasised in Beloved, transformation, present in Paradise, and articulation, permeating the writing of place in A Mercy, run through all three novels. It also points to the presence of interplaces, understood through Edward Casey as intermediate places and suggests further research on such places in Morrison’s work. Finally, it suggests that Morrison’s writing of place ties in with diaspora studies as well as modernity, thus expanding the horizon and pointing to how our insights into Morrison’s writing of place, seen as a duality of process and result, opens up for new perspectives on her literary places.
