The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison

Prof Linda Wagner-Martin editor Kelly Reames editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:19th Sep '24

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A new, comprehensive collection of essays on the work of Toni Morrison that includes a mix of cross-cultural essays, rereadings of familiar novels, and a mixture of well-known and newer scholars.

The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well as scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American letters, American modernism, and women’s writing.

The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison’s writing within today’s currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison’s “trilogy” of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise alongside Dos Passos’ USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of “influence” that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison, including an essay on Morrison as writer of children’s books and as speaker for children’s education. In addition, a “Teaching Morrison” section is designed to help teachers and critics who teach Morrison in undergraduate classes.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison is wide-ranging, provocative, and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one of the greatest American novelists.

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 *

ISBN: 9781350504905

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440 pages