Examines the life and work of twentieth-century American author Toni Morrison, featuring a biographical profile, critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas in her writing, a selection of critical essays, a chronology, and references.
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Lady no longer sings the blues : rape, madness, and silence in The bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner -- Like an eagle in the air : Toni Morrison / Melvin Dixon -- The self and the other : reading Toni Morrison's Sula and the black female text / Deborah E. McDowell -- A different remembering : memory, history and meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Marilyn Sanders Mobley -- Sula : within and beyond the African-American folk tradition / Trudier Harris -- Putting it all together : attempted unification in Song of solomon / Philip Page -- Speaking the unspeakable : shame, trauma, and Morrison's fiction / J. Brooks Bouson -- Contentions in The house of Chloe : Morrison's tar baby / Maria DiBattista -- Sensations of loss / Michael Wood -- Missing peace in Toni Morrison's Sula and Beloved / Rachel C. Lee.