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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 .
Price: $22.95
Pages: 224
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Contemporary World Writers
Publication Date:
23 July 1998
ISBN: 9780719044489
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Jill Matus is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto
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