Toni Morrison's Fiction - Contemporary Criticism

List of contents

Part 1 The Bluest Eye; Chapter 1 Storytelling and Moral Agency, Lynne Tirrell; Chapter 2 Tracking “The Look” in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Ed Guerrero; Part 2 Sula; Chapter 3 Toni Morrison: The Struggle to Depict the Black Figure on the White Page, Timothy B. Powell; Chapter 4 Who Cares? Women-Centered Psychology in Sula, Diane Gillespie, Missy Dehn Kubitschek; Part 3 Song of Solomon; Chapter 5 Faulkner and Joyce in Morrison’s Song of Solomon, David Cowart; Chapter 6 Civilizations Underneath: African Heritage as Cultural Discourse in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Gay Wilentz; Chapter 7 “Rememory”: Primal Scenes and Constructions in Toni Morrison’s Novels, Ashraf H.A. Rushdy; Part 4 Tar Baby; Chapter 8 Paradise Lost and Found: Dualism and Edenic Myth in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, Lauren Lepow; Chapter 9 The Ancestor as Foundation in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Tar Baby, Sandra Pouchet Paquet; Part 5 Beloved; Chapter 10 Beloved and the New Apocalypse, Susan Bowers; Chapter 11 Fleshly Ghosts and Ghostly Flesh: The Word and the Body in Beloved, David Lawrence; Chapter 12 Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison: Reflections on Postmodernism and the Study of Religion and Literature, Ann-Janine Morey; Part 6 Jazz; Chapter 13 The Function of Jazz in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Barbara Williams Lewis; Chapter 14 Movin’ on up: The Madness of Migration in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Deborah H. Barnes; Chapter 15 The Problem of Narrative in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Katherine J. Mayberry;

About the author

David L. Middleton

Summary

This collection of contemporary criticism explores the author's concern with racial and gender issues and analyses her relation to other major modern authors.

Product details

• Assisted by: David L. Middleton (Editor), Middleton David L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780815335887
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3588-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture; Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, Ethnic Studies, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity