Toni Morrison [electronic resource] : a literary life /
Wagner-Martin, L.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments and Conventions; Introduction: Morrison's Early Years; 1 Song of Solomon: One 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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Morrison, Toni.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
America—Literatures.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Literature—History and criticism.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Literary History.