Morrison's rich tale of two women who grow estranged. The title, Toni Morrison's Sula, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Toni Morrison's Sula through...
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Morrison's rich tale of two women who grow estranged. The title, Toni Morrison's Sula, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Toni Morrison's Sula through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Toni Morrison, a chronology of the author's life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. Cover -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- Toni Morrison's Sula: A Satire on Binary Thinking -- In Search of Self -- The Contemporary Fables of Toni Morrison by Barbara Christian -- A Hateful Passion, a Lost Love by Hortense J. Spillers -- Sula and the Primacy of Woman-to-Woman Bonds by Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos -- Like an Eagle in the Air: Toni Morrison by Melvin Dixon -- Sula: Within and Beyond the African American Folk Tradition by Trudier Harris -- Sula and Beloved: Images of Cain in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Carolyn M. Jones -- Sula by Karen Carmean -- War and Peace: Transfigured Categories and the Politics of Sula by Patricia Hunt -- Shocked into Separateness by Philip Page -- The Black Voice and the Language of the Text by Biman Basu -- Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood by Jan Furman -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.