Toni Morrison [Hardcover]

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.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.Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction;?L. Peach.- Self, Society, and Myth in Toni Morrison's Fiction; C.Davies.- The Crime of Innocence:?Tar Baby?and the Fall Myth;?T. Otten.- Hagar's Mirror: Self and Identity in Morrison's Fiction;?B.Rigney.- 'No Bottom and No top': Oppositions in?Sula; M.Dubey.- Tar Baby: A Reflection of Morrison's Developed Class Consciousness;?D.Mbalia.- On Knowing our Place: Psychoanalysis and?Sula; H.Baker.- Selfhood and Community: Psychoanalysis and Discourse in?Beloved; J.Fitzgerald.- Knitl#+