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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison - Bloomsbury Handbooks
Kelly Reames
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first major collection of critical essays to appear since Morrison's death in mid-2019, this book contains peviously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions.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.
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432 pages, 10 b/w illus
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 12, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350239920 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 440 |
| Dimensions | 212 × 263 × 30 mm · 1.10 kg |
| Editor | Reames, Kelly |
| Editor | Wagner-Martin, Prof Linda |
