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Toni Morrison : a critical companion

Author: Missy Dehn Kubitschek
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Series: Critical companions to popular contemporary writers.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Kubitschek, Missy Dehn.
Toni Morrison.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998
(OCoLC)609605286
Named Person: Toni Morrison; Toni Morrison
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Missy Dehn Kubitschek
ISBN: 0313302650 9780313302657
OCLC Number: 38249284
Description: xi, 203 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Life of Toni Morrison --
Literary contexts --
Bluest eye (1970) --
Sula (1973) --
Song of Solomon (1977) --
Tar baby (1981) --
Beloved (1987) --
Jazz (1992) --
Paradise (1998).
Series Title: Critical companions to popular contemporary writers.
Responsibility: Missy Dehn Kubitschek.

Abstract:

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.

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