
Toni Morrison
Historical Perspectives and Literary Contexts
Linden Peach(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 31. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-333-91575-2 (ISBN)
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Description
Toni Morrison is widely recognized for reclaiming the occluded narratives of African-American history and the Africanist presence in American national identity. This revised edition (previously published in the Macmillan Modern Novelists Series) highlights the extent to which her work invokes, often subversively, familiar African-American and Euro-American verbal narratives and is engaged by the histories that are obscured or distorted in them. Reviewing Morrison's career from "The Bluest Eye" to "Paradise", this study suggests that as her work has become more specifically concerned with particular episodes or events in black history, it has also become more involved in the complexities of historiography. This edition also has increased emphasis on the critical debates that Morrison's fiction has generated and the different theoretical approaches that may be taken to her work.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-91575-2 (9780333915752)
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Person
LINDEN PEACH is Professor of Modern Literature at Loughborough University.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements - Biographical and Critical Contexts - The Early Novels: The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973) - The Romance Novels: Song of Solomon (1977) and Tar Baby (1981) - The Middle Passage: Beloved (1987) - The 1990s: Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1998) - Postscript - Select Bibliography - Index