Toni Morrison's fiction /

In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992 continue Furman's explorations of Morrison's themes and narrative strategies. In all Fur...

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Autore principale: Furman, Jan
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press 2014.
Edizione:Revised and expanded edition.
Serie:Understanding contemporary American literature.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv6wgck3
Sommario:
  • Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Chapter 1 Understanding Toni Morrison; Chapter 2 Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood: The Bluest Eye and Sula; Chapter 3 Male Consciousness: Song of Solomon; Chapter 4 Community and Cultural Identity: Tar Baby; Chapter 5 Remembering the "Disremembered": Beloved; Chapter 6 City Blues: Jazz; Chapter 7 Utopia and Moral Hazard: Paradise; Chapter 8 The Language of Love: Love; Chapter 9 The Race[ing] of Slavery: A Mercy; Chapter 10 A Lesson of Manhood: Home; Chapter 11 Literary and Social Criticism: Playing in the Dark; Conclusion; Notes.
  • Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.