TY - BOOK AU - Middleton,David L. TI - Toni Morrison's fiction: contemporary criticism T2 - Critical studies on Black life and culture SN - 0815308698 AV - PS3563.O8749 Z915 1997 U1 - 813/.54 20 PY - 1997/// CY - New York, London PB - Garland KW - Morrison, Toni KW - Women and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - African American women in literature KW - African Americans in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1: The Bluest eye; Storytelling and moral agency; Lynne Tirrell --; Tracking 'the look' in the novels of Toni Morrison; Ed Guerrero; Part 2: Sula; Toni Morrison: the struggle to depict the Black figure on the white page; Timothy B. Powell --; Who cares? Women-centered psychology in Sula; Diane Gillespie and Missy Dehn Kubitschek; Part 3: Song of Solomon; Faulkner and Joyce in Morrison's Song of Solomon; Gay Wilentz --; 'Rememory': primal scenes and constructions in Toni Morrison's novels; Ashraf H.A. Rushdy; Part 4: Tar baby; Paradise lost and found: dualism and edenic myth in Toni Morrison's Tar baby; Lauren Lepow --; The Ancestor as foundation in Their eyes were watching God and Tar baby; Sandra Pouchet Paquet --; Part 5: Beloved; Beloved and the new apocalypse; Susan Bowers --; Fleshly ghosts and ghostly flesh: the word and the body in Beloved; David Lawrence --; Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison: reflections on postmodernism and the study of religion and literature; Ann-Janine Morey; Part 6: Jazz; The Function of jazz in Toni Morrison's Jazz; Barbara Williams Lewis --; Movin' on up: the madness of migration in Toni Morrison's Jazz; Deborah H. Barnes --; The Problem of narrative in Toni Morrison's Jazz; Katherine J. Mayberry ER -