How would I paraphrase this paragraph?
There is also quite a bit of fetishization going on regarding the Africanist presence in the form of the nurse. First, Edna decides to take up painting; "The quadroon sat for hours before Edna's palette, patient as a savage" (57). Morrison says fetishization is often linked to savagery and is useful in "evoking erotic fears . . . establishing fixed and major differences where difference does not exist or is minimal . . . Blood . . . is a pervasive fetish" (Morrison 15). Certainly the idea of noble, patient savagery is here, and early in the novel the na

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How would I paraphrase this paragraph? 
There is also quite a bit of fetishization going on regarding the Africanist presence in the form of the nurse. First, Edna decides to take up painting; "The quadroon sat for hours before Edna's palette, patient as a savage" (57). Morrison says fetishization is often linked to savagery and is useful in "evoking erotic fears . . . establishing fixed and major differences where difference does not exist or is minimal . . . Blood . . . is a pervasive fetish" (Morrison 15). Certainly the idea of noble, patient savagery is here, and early in the novel the na