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1st Edition

Toni Morrison's Fiction Contemporary Criticism

Edited By David L. Middleton Copyright 1997
    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    342 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 formative effects of learning one's Otherness as a result of majority perception, to the apocalyptic implications of racial memory, to the moral and psychologically constructive act of storytelling, to the structural function served by improvisational jazz music, to the imagery associated with both flight and naming, to the uniquely female experience of community-major issues raised by Morrison's body of work are explicated here.

    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

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