The essays in this volume represent the range of different approaches which critics have taken to Toni Morrison's work. However, the essays have not neglected the traditional fare of scholarship and provide insights into the structure, themes, language and context of her novels which will prove invaluable to new readers and those already familiar with her work. The essays have been selected also for their contribution to current debates in African-American literary criticism. African-American and European critics discuss Morrison's work in relation to debates over, for example, the essentialist or syncretist nature of African-American writing, the complex nature of African-American identities, the black nationalist aesthetic, and the relevance of European and non-European critical models to black American writers.
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The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Baby Suggs, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison, Brer Rabbit, Macon Dead, New York, Jazz Age, Civil War, Doreatha Mbalia, New Historicist, Reverend Bassett, Golden Gray, New Historicism, United States, Henry Louis Gates, Howard University, Virginia Woolf, Black Aesthetic, Jacqueline de Weever, Miss Bodwin, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, Sweet Home New!
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Ohio is an interesting and complex state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primer extract, city novel, tar baby, stock motifs, black women writers, romance formula, quest narrative, ancestral wisdom, white norms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Baby Suggs, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison, Brer Rabbit, Macon Dead, New York, Jazz Age, Civil War, Doreatha Mbalia, New Historicist, Reverend Bassett, Golden Gray, New Historicism, United States, Henry Louis Gates, Howard University, Virginia Woolf, Black Aesthetic, Jacqueline de Weever, Miss Bodwin, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, Sweet Home New!
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- The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison on 21 pages
- Tar Baby by Toni Morrison on 19 pages
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison on 16 pages
- Harlem Book of the Dead by Camille Billops on page 131, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison on page 9, page 127, and Back Matter
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- Literature in Context by Rick Rylance on 5 pages
- African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings: Retrospective Fiction and Representation by Margaret I. Jordan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Religiosity, Cosmology and Folklore: The African Influence in the Novels of Toni Morrison (Studies in African American History and Culture) by Therese E. Higgins on page 48, and Back Matter
- Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic by Lucie Armitt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation by Robert Stam on page 292, and page 293
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