Toni Morrison
Published on 8. June 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 211 pages
978-0-333-65915-1 (ISBN)
Description
This New Casebook provides an overview of the criticism of work by Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature, and an introduction to the key works and issues in African-American literary scholarship. It is supported by the first annotated bibliography of the different critical approaches which have been taken to Morrison's fiction. The essays provide insights into the structure, themes, language and contexts of her novels which will prove invaluable for both new readers and those already familiar with her work.
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Series
Edition
1998
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-65915-1 (9780333659151)
DOI
10.1057/9781137265890
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Person
LINDEN PEACH is Reader in Contemporary Literature, Loughborough University. He was previously Principal Lecturer and Head of the School of English, Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds. He is the author of Toni Morrison, Macmillan Modern Novelists Series, 1995, and his other publications include: Angela Carter, Macmillan 1997; Ancestral Lines: Culture and Identity in the Work of Six Contemporary Poets (Seren Books, 1993); and, with Angela Burton, English as a Creative Art: Literary Concepts Linked to Creative Writing (Fulton, 1995).
Content
Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction; L. Peach.- Self, Society, and Myth in Toni Morrison's Fiction; C.Davies.- The Crime of Innocence: Tar Baby and the Fall Myth; T. Otten.- Hagar's Mirror: Self and Identity in Morrison's Fiction;
B.Rigney.- 'No Bottom and No top': Oppositions in
Sula; M.Dubey.- Tar Baby: A Reflection of Morrison's Developed Class Consciousness; D.Mbalia.- On Knowing our Place: Psychoanalysis and
Sula; H.Baker.- Selfhood and Community: Psychoanalysis and Discourse in
Beloved; J.Fitzgerald.- Knitting and Knotting the Narrative Thread -
Beloved as Postmodern Novel; R. Perez-Torres.- Daughters Signifyin(g) History: The Example of Toni Morrison's
Beloved; A.Rushdy.- Experiencing
Jazz; E.Rodrigues.- Signifying Abjection: Narrative Strategies in Toni Morrison's
Jazz; A. Burton.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.