Toni Morrison /

Toni Morrison / editors, Solomon O. Iyasere and Marla W. Iyasere. - Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010. - xii, 337 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Toni Morrison / Biography of Toni Morrison / Paris review perspective / Toni Morrison : solo flight through literature into history / context for understanding Morrison's work / critical reception of Toni Morrison's work / Morrison's novels as texts, not works / Song of Solomon / Crying, dancing, laughing : the breaking and reunification of community in Beloved / Built on the ashes : the fall of the house of Sutpen and the rise of the house of Sethe / Refiguring the flesh : the word, the body, and the rituals of being in Beloved and Go tell it on the mountain / projection of the beast : subverting mythologies in Toni Morrison's Jazz / In search of new subjectivity : identity in the novels of Toni Morrison / Prospero's spell and the question of resistance : Tar baby / Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from The bluest eye to Jazz : the importance of Tar Baby / "I been worried sick about you too, Macon" : Toni Morrison, the South, and the oral tradition / "Killing the White girl first" : understanding the politics of Black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise / laying on of hands : Toni Morrison and the materiality of Love / Solomon O. Iyasere, Marla W. Iyasere -- Kwame S. N. Dawes -- Sasha Weiss -- Trudier Harris -- Susan R. Bowers -- Jennifer E. Dunn -- Philip Page -- Karen Carmean -- Amy M. Green -- Michael Hogan -- Carol E. Henderson -- Darryl Dickson-Carr -- Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis -- Gurleen Grewal -- Malin Walther Pereira -- Yvonne Atkinson, Philip Page -- David Ikard -- Anissa Janine Wardi. The A The The A

9781587656224 (alk. paper) 1587656221

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Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019 --Criticism and interpretation.

PS 3563 .O8749 / Z8945 2010