Toni Morrison

ISBN-13: 9780333659144 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 211 str.

Linden Peach

Opis

This New Casebook provides an overview of the criticism of work by Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature, and an introduction to the key works and issues in African-American literary scholarship. It is supported by the first annotated bibliography of the different critical approaches which have been taken to Morrison's fiction. The essays provide insights into the structure, themes, language and contexts of her novels which will prove invaluable for both new readers and those already familiar with her work.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction; L. Peach.- Self, Society, and Myth in Toni Morrison's Fiction; C.Davies.- The Crime of Innocence: Tar Baby and the Fall Myth; T. Otten.- Hagar's Mirror: Self and Identity in Morrison's Fiction; B.Rigney.- 'No Bottom and No top': Oppositions in Sula; M.Dubey.- Tar Baby: A Reflection of Morrison's Developed Class Consciousness; D.Mbalia.- On Knowing our Place: Psychoanalysis and Sula; H.Baker.- Selfhood and Community: Psychoanalysis and Discourse in Beloved; J.Fitzgerald.- Knitting and Knotting the Narrative Thread - Beloved as Postmodern Novel; R. Perez-Torres.- Daughters Signifyin(g) History: The Example of Toni Morrison's Beloved; A.Rushdy.- Experiencing Jazz; E.Rodrigues.- Signifying Abjection: Narrative Strategies in Toni Morrison's Jazz; A. Burton.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

LINDEN PEACH is Reader in Contemporary Literature, Loughborough University. He was previously Principal Lecturer and Head of the School of English, Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds. He is the author of Toni Morrison, Macmillan Modern Novelists Series, 1995, and his other publications include: Angela Carter, Macmillan 1997; Ancestral Lines: Culture and Identity in the Work of Six Contemporary Poets (Seren Books, 1993); and, with Angela Burton, English as a Creative Art: Literary Concepts Linked to Creative Writing (Fulton, 1995).