New Essays on Song of Solomon / Edition 1

by Valerie Smith

Overview

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 on African-American texts in general and on Song of Solomon in particular. They reveal the complexities of a deceptively straightforward novel and spark renewed interest in this pivotal text by one of the most gifted authors this nation has produced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521456043
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/27/1995
Series:	The American Novel
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	15 - 17 Years

Table of Contents

1. 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.