UID:
almafu_9960966412802883
Format:
1 online resource (306 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-80010-211-9
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1-80010-212-7
Series Statement:
Literary criticism in perspective
Content:
Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet despite the ever-expanding field of Morrison scholarship, no book tracing her critical reception has existed, until now. The book is as much a cultural history of America as a reception history of an American writer.Morrison worked brilliantly in many genres - fiction, of course (novels and short stories); drama/staged performance; poetry; non-fiction on historical, social, and political issues; and critical writings on the work of others and on her own work. She generated a literary-critical methodology that recognizes and embraces rather than ignores the African American presence in US literature, and thus transformed American academics' attitude toward American letters. The story of Morrison's achievement in making a home for herself - and for other women and people of color - in the stony bedrock of "white male" American literature is the subject of this book.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jan 2023).
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Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Bluest Eye (1970) -- Chapter Two Sula (1973) -- Chapter Three Song of Solomon (1977) -- Chapter Four Tar Baby (1981) -- Chapter Five Beloved (1987) -- Chapter Six Jazz (1992) -- Chapter Seven Paradise (1997) -- Chapter Eight Love (2003) -- Chapter Nine A Mercy (2008) -- Home (2012) -- God Help the Child (2015) -- Coda -- Works Cited -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-934-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800102118
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800102118/type/BOOK
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