<p>The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning </span><i>Beloved</i></span><span style="color
Toni Morrison
β Scribed by Morrison, Toni;IyasαΊΉre, Solomon Ogbede;Iyasere, Marla W
- Publisher
- Salem Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 349
- Series
- Critical insights
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Essays in this volume provide a clear overview of Toni Morrison and her accomplishments to date, beginning with discussions of Morrison's life and influence, continuing with articles on the critical contexts of her works, and focusing on critical readings of Morrison's involves from The Bluest Eye to Love."--About this volume.
β¦ Table of Contents
On Toni Morrison / Solomon O. Iyasere, Marla W. Iyasere --
Biography of Toni Morrison / Kwame S.N. Dawes --
The Paris review perspective / Sasha Weiss --
Toni Morrison : solo flight through literature into history / Trudier Harris --
A context for understanding Morrison's work / Susan R. Bowers --
The critical reception of Toni Morrison's work / Jennifer E. Dunn --
Morrison's novels as texts, not works / Philip Page --
Song of Solomon / Karen Carmean --
Crying, dancing, laughing : the breaking and reunification of community in Beloved / Amy M. Green --
Built on the ashes : the fall of the house of Sutpen and the rise of the house of Sethe / Michael Hogan --
Refiguring the flesh : the word, the body, and the rituals of being in Beloved and Go tell it on the mountain / Carol E. Henderson --
The projection of the beast : subverting mythologies in Toni Morrison's Jazz / Darryl Dickson-Carr --
In search of new subjectivity : identity in the novels of Toni Morrison / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis --
Prospero's spell and the question of resistance : Tar baby / Gurleen Grewal --
Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from The bluest eye to Jazz : the importance of Tar Baby / Malin Walther Pereira --
"I been worried sick about you too, Macon" : Toni Morrison, the South, and the oral tradition / Yvonne Atkinson, Philip Page --
"Killing the White girl first" : understanding the politics of Black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise / David Ikard --
A laying on of hands : Toni Morrison and the materiality of Love / Anissa Janine Wardi.
β¦ Subjects
African American women authors;African American women in literature;African Americans in literature;Criticism, interpretation, etc;Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation;Morrison, Toni
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