Toni Morrison
By: Linden Peach.
Series: Modern novelists
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; African American women in literature.; African Americans in literature.
Description: This succinct, critical introduction to Morrison's work seeks to make her novels more accessible through unravelling notions of self-representation and narrative structure which will be new to readers accustomed to Euro-American literary conventions. Without ghettoising Morrison as a black woman writer, this is the first major study of how the experimental narrative strategies of her fiction are determined by its African-American content.

Linden Peach argues that her novels are most usefully approached through an examination of the innovative techniques which they employ and the creative possibilities these offer.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-144) and index.