Toni Morrison
Subtitle: Paradise, Love, A mercy
By: edited by Lucille P. Fultz
Series: Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781441130136; 9781441119681; 9781441125392; 9781441167910
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon Morrison's most recently published novels (Paradise, Love, A Mercy) the contributors to this volume revisit issues that continue to engage Morrison and are part of the currency of contemporary American literary and cultural history. These selections examine Morrison's ongoing "romance" with African Americans as they continue to battle the demons of race, gender, class, and poverty, to name a few. Together, these essays offer comprehensive and nuanced discussions of Morrison's latest novels and provide new directions for Morrison scholarship in the twenty-first century. This volume provides students of literature, cultural studies, and history with an overview of Morrison's examination of African American progress and leadership at key moments in American history and culture from the Colonial Period to the present. Through their thematic interconnectedness, the essays reveal Morrison at her most brilliant in her ability to reach into the past to comment on contemporary issues."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.