Critical Life of Toni Morrison

Name: Critical Life of Toni Morrison
Brand: Camden House
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By Susan Neal Mayberry

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Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet despite the ever-expanding field of Morrison scholarship, no book tracing her critical reception has existed, until now. The book is as much a cultural history of America as a reception history of an American writer. Morrison worked brilliantly in many genres - fiction, of course (novels and short stories); drama/staged performance; poetry; non-fiction on historical, social, and political issues; and critical writings on the work of others and on her own work. She generated a literary-critical methodology that recognizes and embraces rather than ignores the African American presence in US literature, and thus transformed American academics' attitude toward American letters. The story of Morrison's achievement in making a home for herself - and for other women and people of color - in the stony bedrock of "white male" American literature is the subject of this book.

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Number of Pages:: 318
Release Date:: 2021-07-15
Publication Date:: 2021-07-15
Publisher:: Camden House
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1571139346
ISBN13:: 9781571139344
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 613 g
Height:: 157 cm
Width:: 235 cm
Thickness:: 22 cm

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