Toni Morrison
historical perspectives and literary contexts
by Linden Peach
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"In this revised version of his critical introduction to Toni Morrison, Linden Peach argues that Morrison's fiction is engaged not only by the generic conventions that different verbal narratives offer the reader but by the histories that have been obscured or silenced by them. Morrison's own work, he maintains, is based on an acute awareness of how these narratives have been agents in the priority that particular histories have acquired while others have been occluded. Reviewing Morrison's career over nearly thirty years, from The Bluest Eye to Paradise, this updated study suggests that as her work has become more concerned with particular episodes or events in black history, it has also become more involved with the complexities of historiography and with the historical perspectives underpinning a wider range of verbal narratives."--BOOK JACKET.
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Toni Morrison: historical perspectives and literary contexts
2000, Macmillan Press, St. Martin's Press
in English
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Toni Morrison: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks)
June 15, 1998, Palgrave Macmillan
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in English
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"Revised version of Toni Morrison (1995), originaly published in the Macmillan modern novelist series"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The novels of Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have inspired stimulating and original criticism. This volume embraces modern theoretic approaches without neglecting the more traditional fare of literary scholarship, providing insights into the structure, themes, language and contexts of her novels.
Each essay has been carefully selected for its contribution to current debates in African-American literary criticism, including the complex nature of African-American identities and the black nationalist aesthetic. The book will prove invaluable both for new readers and for those familiar with her work.
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