Title: Toni Morrison
First published: 1998
Description: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, Toni Morrison is among our most distinguished contemporary novelists. Morrison describes herself as a "black woman novelist," and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. Exploring the entire cycle of human life in a spiritual context, her novels are also universal in their depiction of families, especially mothers and their children.

This study analyzes in turn each of her novels. It also provides the reader with a complete bibliography of her writings, as well as a list of selected reviews and criticism. The discussion of each novel features sections on plot and character development, narrative structure, thematic issues, and an alternative critical approach from which to read the novel.

Written specifically for high school and college students and general readers, this study illuminates and enriches the reading of Morrison's novels.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, African American women in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, History, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Noirs américains dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General
Places: United States
People: Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3563.O8749 Z75 1998