Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

Name: Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison
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ISBN: 9780521861113

ISBN-10: 052186111X

ISBN-13: 9780521861113

Edition: 2007

Authors: Justine Tally

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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher. Innovative contributions from internationally recognized critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her…

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List price: $100.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/13/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Notes on contributors


Chronology


Introduction: "All necks are on the line"




Toni Morrison's Fiction



The Bluest Eye and Sula: black female experience from childhood to womanhood




Song of Solomon and Tar Baby: the subversive role of language and the carnivalesque




Beloved or the shifting shapes of memory




Jazz and Paradise: pivotal moments in black history




The Morrison trilogy




Love and the survival of the black community




The artistic impulse of Toni Morrison's shorter works




Toni Morrison's Criticism and Editing



Toni Morrison's literary criticism




Toni Morrison's social criticism




Toni Morrison, editor and teacher




Essays



Language and narrative technique in Toni Morrison's novels




Toni Morrison, intellectual




Morrison and the critical community




Further Reading


Works



Selected critical reading


Index