Toni Morrison
Subtitle: historical perspectives and literary contexts
By: Linden Peach.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Macmillan Press; St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.; Morrison, Toni -- Knowledge -- History.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; African American women in literature.; African Americans in literature.
Description: "In this revised version of his critical introduction to Toni Morrison, Linden Peach argues that Morrison's fiction is engaged not only by the generic conventions that different verbal narratives offer the reader but by the histories that have been obscured or silenced by them. Morrison's own work, he maintains, is based on an acute awareness of how these narratives have been agents in the priority that particular histories have acquired while others have been occluded. Reviewing Morrison's career over nearly thirty years, from The Bluest Eye to Paradise, this updated study suggests that as her work has become more concerned with particular episodes or events in black history, it has also become more involved with the complexities of historiography and with the historical perspectives underpinning a wider range of verbal narratives."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Revised version of Toni Morrison (1995), originaly published in the Macmillan modern novelist series"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

SCAR copy without sub-title.