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Toni Morrison: Conversations
Toni MorrisonThis volume includes interviews and profiles from the 1970s and 1980s that were not collected in Conversations with Toni Morrison (1993). --from publisher description.
Conversations with Toni Morrison
Toni MorrisonInterviews from over the course of her career document Morrison's views about fiction, writing technique, and the role of the novelist
Toni Morrison
Jill L. MatusThis is an illuminating and original introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction, focusing on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work.
Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics
Yvette ChristiansëLooks at how Toni Morrison comments on language and writing through her works of fiction. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.
Beloved
Toni MorrisonTHE CLASSIC NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING TONI MORRISON It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky.
Toni Morrison: critical perspectives past and present
Henry Louis GatesReviews, essays, and interviews offer critical interpretations of the works of Toni Morrison
Home
Toni Morrison'A heartbreaking account of lost innocence and fractured dreams... Haunting' New York Times 'I read Toni Morrison's Home in one sitting and was moved to tears.
South Atlantic Review
More editions51 The Demonic in Service of the Divine: Toni Morrison's Beloved Christina Bieber Lake 124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. With these opening words to her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison ensured that she would be remembered as one of ...
Toni Morrison and the Bible: Contested Intertextualities
PreviewThis collection of essays critically interrogates Toni Morrison’s use of the Bible in her novels, examining the ways in which the author plays on the original text to raise issues of spirituality as it affects race, gender, and class.
Toni Morrison
More editions"Killing the White Girl First ": Understanding the Politics of Black Manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise David Ikard While critics such as Missy Dehn Kubitschek, J. Brooks Bouson, and Magali Cornier Michael examine the racism of separatist ...
Toni Morrison's Beloved as African-American Scripture & ...
Heerak Christian Kim39 Wendy Harding and Jacky Martin, A World of Difference: An Inter-Cultural Study of Toni Morrison's Novels (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994), p. 113. 40 Brian Finney writes: "Ultimately the novel is about the haunting of the entire Black ...
Dismemberment in the Fiction of Toni Morrison
Jaleel AkhtarKristina K. Groover observes that lack of domestic rituals or the ability to perform them depicts disintegrating relationships and the spiritual dissolution behind the attempts to establish domestic life in Toni Morrison's fiction (Groover 33).
Grounded: folkloric traditions in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby
Sherry JohnsonOn the other hand, Mary Beth Pringle views Jadine not as a doomed victim, but as a woman who is able to create a place out of "placelessness." In "On a Jet Plane: Jadine's Search For Identity Through Place in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby," ...
A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Lesson"
Gale, Cengage LearningButlerEvans, Elliot, Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker, Temple University Press , 1989, pp. 91122. Chevigny, Bell Gale, Review in the Village Voice, April 12, ...
Toni Morrison: The Essential Guide
Jonathan NoakesThis guide deals with Morrison's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
Embodying Beauty: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' ...
Malin PereiraFor a discussion of Morrison's use of "magic realism," see Sanford Pinsker, and Craig Werner, "Homer's Joyce: John Updike, Ronald Sukenick, Robert Coover. Toni Morrison." For a particularly harsh critique of Morrison's use of "magic realism" ...
Midwestern Miscellany
More editionsON A JET PLANE: JADINE'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY THROUGH PLACE IN TONI MORRISON'S TAR BABY1 Mary Beth Pringle Although the cover of the paperback edition of Toni Morrisons Tar Baby refers to the novels "extraordinary sense ...
Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave, The: The Ancestral Call ...
Venetria K. PattonSee also Sarah Appleton Aguiar, “Everywhere and Nowhere': Beloved's 'Wild” Legacy in Toni Morrison's ]azz.” Notes on Contemporary Literatnre 25.4 (1995): 11—12, Deborah E. McDowell, “Harlem Nocturne,” Review of ]azz by Toni Morri — ...
Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Jennifer Lee Jordan HeinertHeinert argues how Morrison’s novels revise conventional generic forms such as bildungsroman, folktales, slave narratives, and the formal realism of the novel itself.
Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and ...
Toni Cade BambaraEdited and with a Preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara's passion, lyricism, and tough critical intelligence.
Cross-cultural Performances: Differences in Women's ...
PreviewI am indebted to Craig Werner for pointing out this call-response parallel. His essay, "The Briar Patch as Modernist Myth: Morrison, Barthes and Tar Baby As-Is, " in Critical Essays on Toni Morrison, ed. Nellie McKay (Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., ...
Beloved
Toni MorrisonStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in ...
Brian JarvisIn this work, the author addresses ideas and writers from Baudrillard and Jameson to David Lynch and Toni Morrison.
Toni Morrison
Diane Patrick-WexlerDiscusses the personal life and literary achievements of the woman who, in 1993, became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia
PreviewAlphabetically arranged entries discuss the Nobel Prize-winning author's works, themes, and major characters, as well as providing an overview of her life and achievements.
Jazz
Toni MorrisonThis passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.
In the Morning: Biographical Sketches of the Veterans of ...
W. James MacDonaldMorrison, Donald Norman F1527 Donnie was born on March 1, 1913, the son of John L. and Peggy Ann (Morrison) Morrison, Wreck Cove. He enlisted on August 13, 1942, ... En- f Donald R. Morrison and his wife, . , T T .... Lieut. Sally Miller ...
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni MorrisonExamines the effect of a racially divided society on ninteenth century American writings, and discusses works by Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain
African-American Writers
Amy SickelsProfiles notable African Americans and their work in the field of literature, including Maya Angelou, Walter Dean Myers, and Toni Morrison.
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