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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print: Roynon, Tessa. Toni Morrison and the classical tradition. 2014 |
Named Person: | Toni Morrison; Toni Morrison; Toni Morrison |
Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tessa Roynon |
ISBN: | 9780191760532 0191760536 |
OCLC Number: | 940606019 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 2015 Toni Morrison Book Prize for the Best Single-Authored Book. |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Contents: | PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION: SPLITTING OPEN THE WORLD; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
Series Title: | Classical presences. |
Responsibility: | Tessa Roynon. |
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original, well-written, and conceptually fresh .. a very insightful intervention in American cultural studies ... a landmark study of the subject ... a much needed and impressive contribution to Morrison scholarship. * Comments from the Book Prize Committee of the Toni Morrison Book Prize for the Best Single-Authored Book Award * Every paragraph of this work contributes some insight that slows the reader down and causes one to ponder and rethink Morrison. I have taught some of Morrison's books for thirty years, but Roynon has made me want to start again and reread them from the beginning ... Her meaty and penetrating analysis demonstrates Morrison's "ambivalent engagement" in rewriting, even inverting, conventional American history. * William K. Freiert, Classical Journal * Read more...

