Toni Morrison

by Jill Matus

Overview

An illuminating study of one of the best-selling, most widely studied black authors today. Explains Morrison's relation to the American civil rights and Black Consciousness movements. Places Morrison in a political and historical context .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719044489
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	07/23/1998
Series:	Contemporary World Writers
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Jill Matus is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto

Table of Contents

Series Editor's foreword
1 Chronology
2 Contexts and Intertexts
3 Anger and Shame in The Bluest Eye
4 Sula: war and Peace traumas
5 Song of Solomon: raising Dead fathers
6 Tar Baby : a message mailed from under the sink
7 Beloved: the possessions of history
8 ‘A sweettooth for pain': history, trauma and replay in Jazz
9 Critical overview
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Focusing on Morrison's themes of trauma, history, and memory, Matus (English, U. of Toronto) sandwiches her critique of specific works (The Bluest Eyes, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise) between an essay on contexts and intertexts and a critical overview. Morrison continues W.E.B. Du Bois' legacy of countering the neglect of the black experience that haunts US history. The eclectic discussion spans the black aesthetic and black power movements, her 1993 Nobel Prize lecture, and other literary and political voices. Includes a chronology. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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