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050 00 $aPS3563.O8749$bS636 1994
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245 00 $aNew essays on Song of Solomon /$cedited by Valerie Smith.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1995.
300 $aviii, 120 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe American novel
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $a1. Introduction / Valerie Smith -- 2. From Orality to Literacy: Oral Memory in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Joyce Irene Middleton -- 3. Call and Response: Voice, Community, and Dialogic Structures in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Marilyn Sanders Mobley -- 4. Knowing Their Names: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Marianne Hirsch -- 5. The Postmodernist Rag: Political Identity and the Vernacular in Song of Solomon / Wahneema Lubiano.
520 $aThe American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to great works of American literature. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the work's composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as well as a survey of the major critical trends and readings from first publication to the present.
520 8 $aThis overview is followed by a group of new essays, each specially commissioned from a leading scholar in the field, which together constitute a forum of interpretative methods and prominent contemporary ideas on the text. There are also helpful guides to further reading. Specifically designed for undergraduates, the series will be a powerful resource for anyone engaged in the critical analysis of major American novels and other important texts.
520 8 $a. The essays collected here, written by leading critics of Toni Morrison's work, exemplify the fresh theoretical and cultural perspectives that have been brought to bear upon African American texts in general and upon Song of Solomon in particular. They reveal the complexities of a deceptively straightforward novel, at once acknowledging and kindling renewed interest in what has proved a pivotal text by one of the most gifted authors this nation has produced.
600 10 $aMorrison, Toni.$tSong of Solomon.
650 0 $aAfrican American families in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97008983
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002009
651 0 $aMichigan$xIn literature.
700 1 $aSmith, Valerie,$d1956-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86012444
830 0 $aAmerican novel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84735997
852 00 $bbar$hPS3563.O8749$iS636 1995