Screen LibraryThe Bloomsbury handbook to Toni Morrison /
"The first major collection of critical essays to appear since Morrison's death in mid-2019, this book contains peviously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The first major collection of critical essays to appear since Morrison's death in mid-2019, this book contains peviously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions.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 will be wide-ranging, provocative, and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one of the greatest American novelists"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-403) and index. |
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9781350239920 1350239925 9781350239968 1350239968 |
| Index Number: | PS3563 |
| CLC: | I712.065-62 |
| Call Number: | I712.065-62/B655 |
| Contents: |
Foreword. Toni Morrison : a friend of my mind / The sight and sound of intersectionality in The bluest eye / Re-visiting the unspeakable : can Soaphead Church be redeemed? / Do you believe in magic? #BlackGirlMagic in The bluest eye / "Is? My baby? Burning?" : Segregation, soldiers, and civil rights in Toni Morrison's Sula / Toni Morrison's female epistemology : post-nationalism, diaspora, and postcolonial futures in Tar baby, Mouth full of blood, and Paradise / "How can I say things that are pictures?" Foregrounding in Beloved / Rootlessness : Afro-pessimism as foundation in Paradise / Love : Toni Morrison's African American Gothic / "A home for the heart" : rootlessness, Richard Wright, and Morrison's Home / The ancestor, passing, and imagination in Toni Morrison's God help the child / Arcs of transcendence : the religious imagination of Toni Morrison / "Unforgetting" : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice / Blues lives matter : reading Jazz in the era of George Floyd / Margaret Garner in history, opera, and as inspiration for Beloved / Faulkner after Morrison / Prospects for the public uses of 'Toni Morrison' / "Only white folks got the freedom to hate home" : strategic empathy and expanded intersectionality since Morrison's Home / Toni Morrison and the politics of literary generosity / Soldiers, identity, and trauma : teaching Home in a war literature course / |