Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is one of America's most popular American authors, and her works are frequently studied in college and high school courses. Her novels, including The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon,...
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Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is one of America's most popular American authors, and her works are frequently studied in college and high school courses. Her novels, including The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and Paradise, have won almost every major award available to them. In addition, her influence as a critic, book editor, and mentor to other writers has been incalculable. This latest addition to the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series delves into Morrison's life and works, providing a chronology and bibliography, plus an index for quick referenc
Cover; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; Faulkner and Joyce in Morrison's Song of Solomon; Paradise: A Warning Not to "Africanize" Exploitation; Experiencing Jazz; Knitting and Knotting the Narrative Thread-Beloved as Postmodern Novel; Spacing and Placing Experience in Toni Morrison's Sula; Toni Morrison's New Bildungsromane: Paired Characters and Antithetical Form in The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved; The "Female Revealer" in Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise: Syncretic Spirituality in Tony Morrison's Trilogy
Love's Time and the Reader: Ethical Effects of Nachtraglichkeit in Toni Morrisson's LoveChronology; Contributors; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index;
