1st Edition
Toni Morrison's Fiction Contemporary Criticism
Edited By David L. Middleton
Copyright 1997
342 Pages
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Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection of contemporary criticism explores her concern with racial and gender issues and analyzes her in relation to other major modern authors, her philosophical and religious speculations, and her preoccupation with the process of fiction-making. These classics provide a broad look at critical argument about Toni Morrison's meanings and significance during the past 10 years. From the... Read more
Part 1 The Bluest Eye; Chapter 1 Storytelling and Moral Agency, Lynne Tirrell; Chapter 2 Tracking “The Look” in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Ed Guerrero; Part 2 Sula; Chapter 3 Toni Morrison: The Struggle to Depict the Black Figure on the White Page, Timothy B. Powell; Chapter 4 Who Cares? Women-Centered Psychology in Sula, Diane Gillespie, Missy Dehn Kubitschek; Part 3 Song of Solomon; Chapter 5 Faulkner and Joyce in Morrison’s Song of Solomon, David Cowart; Chapter 6 Civilizations Underneath: African Heritage as Cultural Discourse in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Gay Wilentz; Chapter 7 “Rememory”: Primal Scenes and Constructions in Toni Morrison’s Novels, Ashraf H.A. Rushdy; Part 4 Tar Baby; Chapter 8 Paradise Lost and Found: Dualism and Edenic Myth in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, Lauren Lepow; Chapter 9 The Ancestor as Foundation in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Tar Baby, Sandra Pouchet Paquet; Part 5 Beloved; Chapter 10 Beloved and the New Apocalypse, Susan Bowers; Chapter 11 Fleshly Ghosts and Ghostly Flesh: The Word and the Body in Beloved, David Lawrence; Chapter 12 Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison: Reflections on Postmodernism and the Study of Religion and Literature, Ann-Janine Morey; Part 6 Jazz; Chapter 13 The Function of Jazz in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Barbara Williams Lewis; Chapter 14 Movin’ on up: The Madness of Migration in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Deborah H. Barnes; Chapter 15 The Problem of Narrative in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Katherine J. Mayberry;
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David L. Middleton
