Toni Morrison's fiction

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Title:

Author:

Furman, Jan.

ISBN:

9781570033179

Personal Author:

Furman, Jan.

Edition:

1st paperback ed.

Publication Information:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1999.

Physical Description:

123 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Understanding contemporary American literature.

Series Title:

Understanding contemporary American literature.

Contents:

Understanding Toni Morrison -- Black girlhood and Black womanhood : the Bluest eye and Sula -- Male consciousness : Song of Solomon -- Community and cultural identity : Tar baby -- Remembering the "disremembered" : Beloved -- City blues : Jazz -- Literary and social criticism : Playing in the dark.

Personal Subject:

Morrison, Toni-Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term:

Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

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Summary

In this introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning fiction of Toni Morrison, the author surveys six novels, a short story, and a book of criticism to reconstruct the development of Morrison's creative vision and to assess its influence on contemporary literature. She chronicles Morrison's growth as a writer and traces the recurrent characters, themes, and settings that embody Morrison's literary philosophy. Demonstrating that Morrison strongly supports the idea that the artist must engender and interpret culture, the book examines the novelist's contribution to the expansion and redefinition of the American literary canon through her portrayal of the African American experience.