Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Toni Morrison's fiction : contemporary criticism /

Toni Morrison's fiction : contemporary criticism / edited by David L. Middleton. - New York ; London : Garland, 1997. - xviii, 323 p. ; 23 cm. - Critical studies on Black life and culture ; v. 30 Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1602 . - Critical studies on Black life and culture ; v. 30 Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1602. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Storytelling and moral agency / Tracking 'the look' in the novels of Toni Morrison / Toni Morrison: the struggle to depict the Black figure on the white page / Who cares? Women-centered psychology in Sula / Faulkner and Joyce in Morrison's Song of Solomon / 'Rememory': primal scenes and constructions in Toni Morrison's novels / Paradise lost and found: dualism and edenic myth in Toni Morrison's Tar baby / The Ancestor as foundation in Their eyes were watching God and Tar baby / Beloved and the new apocalypse / Fleshly ghosts and ghostly flesh: the word and the body in Beloved / Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison: reflections on postmodernism and the study of religion and literature / The Function of jazz in Toni Morrison's Jazz / Movin' on up: the madness of migration in Toni Morrison's Jazz / The Problem of narrative in Toni Morrison's Jazz / Lynne Tirrell -- Ed Guerrero Timothy B. Powell -- Diane Gillespie and Missy Dehn Kubitschek Gay Wilentz -- Ashraf H.A. Rushdy Lauren Lepow -- Sandra Pouchet Paquet -- Susan Bowers -- David Lawrence -- Ann-Janine Morey Barbara Williams Lewis -- Deborah H. Barnes -- Katherine J. Mayberry. Part 1: The Bluest eye. Part 2: Sula. Part 3: Song of Solomon. Part 4: Tar baby. Part 5: Beloved. Part 6: Jazz.

0815308698 0815335881 (pbk.)

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Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation.


Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.

PS3563.O8749 / Z915 1997

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