Toni Morrison [Paperback]

An illuminating study of one of the best-selling, most widely studied black authors today. Explains Morrison's relation to the American civil rights and Black Consciousness movements. Places Morrison in a political and historical context .

Series Editor's foreword

1 Chronology

2 Contexts and Intertexts

3 Anger and Shame in The Bluest Eye

4 Sula: war and Peace traumas

5 Song of Solomon: raising Dead fathers

6 Tar Baby : a message mailed from under the sink

7 Beloved: the possessions of history

8 `A sweettooth for pain': history, trauma and replay in Jazz

9 Critical overview

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Jill Matus is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto