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Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Philadelphia : Chelsea House, ©1999.
Series: Modern critical interpretations.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
A critical overview of the work features the writings of Wilfred D. Samuels, Valerie Smith, Harry Reed, Ralph Story, and Jan Stryz.
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Named Person: Toni Morrison
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 0791051935 9780791051931
OCLC Number: 40408852
Description: viii, 246 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Liminality and the search for self in Song of Solomon / Wilfred D. Samuels --
Song of Solomon: continuities of community / Valerie Smith --
The interdependence of men's and women's individuation / Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos --
The lyrics of salvation / Karla F. C. Holloway --
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon and black cultural nationalism / Harry Reed --
An excursion into the black world: the "seven days" in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Ralph Story --
"Unruly and let loose": myth, ideology, and gender in Song of Solomon / Michael Awkward --
Inscribing origin in Song of Solomon / Jan Stryz --
Song of Solomon: the struggle for race and class consciousness / Doreatha Drummond Mbalia --
Knowing their names: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Marianne Hirsch --
Competing discourses in Song of Solomon (1977) / Linden Peach --
"Why don't he like my hair?": constructing African-American standards of beauty in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Bertram D. Ashe --
Male consciousness: Song of Solomon / Jan Furman --
"Anaconda love": parental enmeshment in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Gary Storhoff.
Series Title: Modern critical interpretations.
Other Titles: Song of Solomon
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

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A critical overview of the work features the writings of Wilfred D. Samuels, Valerie Smith, Harry Reed, Ralph Story, and Jan Stryz.

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