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The Cambridge companion to Toni Morrison
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- Online
- Summary
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International critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her work to American studies and world literature.
International critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her work to American studies and world literature.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Justine Tally
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781139001786, 1139001787, 9780521678322, 0521678323, 9780521861113, 052186111X, 9780521861113
- OCLC
- ocn723455503
- "Cambridge collections online."
- Title from home page (viewed Feb. 11, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction: "All necks are on the line" / Justine Tally -- Toni Morrison's fiction -- The Bluest Eye and Sula: black female experience from childhood to womanhood / Ágnes Surányi -- Song of Solomon and Tar Baby: the subversive role of language and the carnivalesque / Joyce Hope Scott -- Beloved or the shifting shapes of memory / Claudine Raynaud -- Jazz and Paradise: pivotal moments in black history / Shirley Ann Stave -- The Morrison trilogy / Love and the survival of the black community / Mar Gallego -- The artistic impulse of Toni Morrison's shorter works / Abena P.A. Busia -- Toni Morrison's criticism and editing -- Toni Morrison's literary criticism / Hanna Wallinger -- Toni Morrison's social criticism / Sämi Ludwig -- Toni Morrison, editor and teacher / Cheryl A. Wall -- Essays -- Language and narrative technique in Toni Morrison's novels / Judylyn S. Ryan -- Toni Morrison, intellectual / Dwight A. McBride -- Morrison and the critical community / Deirdre J. Raynor and Johnnella E. Butler -- Further Reading -- Works / Toni Morrison -- Selected critical reading