Toni Morrison

HOUSTON A BAKER Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania ANGELA BURTON at University of Leeds CYNTHIA A DAVIS feminist scholar MADHU DUBEY Assistant Professor of African-American Literature, Northwestern University, Illinois JENNIFER FITZGERALD Senior Lecturer in English, Queen's University, Belfast TERRY OTTEN Professor of English, Wittenberg University DOREATHA DRUMMOND MBALIA Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee RAFAEL PEREZ-TORRES Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania BARBARA HILL RIGNEY Professor of English, The Ohio State University EUSEBIO L RODRIGUES Professor of English, Georgetown University ASHRAF H A RUSHDY Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies, Wesleyan University

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.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.