Toni Morrison - Paradise, Love, A Mercy

Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon Morrison's most recently published novels ( Paradise , Love , A Mercy ) the contributors to this volume revisit issues that continue to engage Morrison and are part of the currency of contemporary American literary and cultural history. These selections examine Morrison's ongoing 'romance' with African Americans as they continue to battle the demons of race, gender, class, and poverty, to name a few. Together, these essays offer comprehensive and nuanced discussions of Morrison's latest novels and provide new directions for Morrison scholarship in the 21st century. This volume provides students of literature, cultural studies, and history with an overview of Morrison's examination of African American progress and leadership at key moments in American history and culture from the Colonial Period to the present. Through their thematic interconnectedness, the essays reveal Morrison at her most brilliant in her ability to reach into the past to comment on contemporary issues.

About the author

Lucille P. Fultz is Associate Professor Emerita in English at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA. She is the author of Toni Morrison: Playing with Difference (2003) and the co-editor of Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters (1991). She is the 2005 recipient of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award.

Product details

• Authors: Lucille P Fultz, Lucille P. Fultz
• Assisted by: Lucille P. Fultz (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2012
• EAN: 9781441130136
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-3013-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Continuum Studies Contem N Ame; Continuum Studies Contem N Ame; Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form