Toni Morrison : a literary life
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Toni Morrison : a literary life
(Macmillan literary lives)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-211) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison - fiction, non-fiction, and other - drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty years.
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments and Conventions Introduction: Morrison's Early Years 1. Song of Solomon: The Beginning of Morrison's Career 2. Tar Baby and Other Folktales 3 Beloved, Beloved, Beloved . . . . 4 Jazz and Morrison's Trilogy: New York in the 1920s 5 Morrison as Public Intellectual 6 The Nobel Prize in Literature and Morrison's Trilogy 7 Morrison and the Twenty-first Century: Love 8 Morrison and Various Mercies 9 Morrison and the Definitions of Home Coda Notes Bibliography Index
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