The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison

This rich cornucopia of insights and analysis by some of our most important scholars of American literature belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the work of America’s greatest novelist and social commentator, Toni Morrison. * Cathy N. Davidson, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor on Transformation and Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA *
This is a mighty and necessary tome. Its complexity, fullness, and thoughtfulness compose a model of due diligence. It will be a critical resource for students and scholars as it “re-members” Toni Morrison’s extraordinary oeuvre in ways that assist, provoke, probe and consider the composure of her literary genius. This generous guide beautifully excavates Morrison’s declaration that “we do language…[the]…measure of our lives.” * Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor Emerita of English and Law, Duke University, USA *
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison is a generative, multi-perspectival resource for teachers, students, and/or general readers. It illuminates many facets of and approaches to Morrison’s wide-ranging work across genres, eras, geographies, and expressive mediums. * María DeGuzmán, Eugene H. Falk Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA *
The essays in this ambitious and multidimensional volume are thorough analyses that both deepen and broaden perspectives on Morrison in complex ways … [An] impressive and comprehensive volume. * Contemporary Women’s Writing *