Toni Morrison's fiction /Jan Furman.
- Revisedition. and expanded edition.
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
- Understanding contemporary American literature .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Chapter 1 Understanding Toni Morrison; Chapter 2 Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood: The Bluest Eye and Sula; Chapter 3 Male Consciousness: Song of Solomon; Chapter 4 Community and Cultural Identity: Tar Baby; Chapter 5 Remembering the "Disremembered": Beloved; Chapter 6 City Blues: Jazz; Chapter 7 Utopia and Moral Hazard: Paradise; Chapter 8 The Language of Love: Love; Chapter 9 The Race[ing] of Slavery: A Mercy; Chapter 10 A Lesson of Manhood: Home; Chapter 11 Literary and Social Criticism: Playing in the Dark; Conclusion; Notes. Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.
In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992 continue Furman's explorations of Morrison's themes and narrative strategies. In all Furman surveys ten works that include the trilogy novels, a short story, and a book of criticism to identify Morrison's recurrent concern with the destructive tensions that define human experience: the clash of gender and authority, the individual and community, race and national identity, culture and authenticity, and the self and other.
9781611173673
Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century. African American women in literature. African Americans in literature.