Toni Morrison : forty years in the clearing / edited and with an introduction by Carmen R. Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gillespie, Carmen.

Series:

Griot Project book series.

The Griot Project book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation.

Morrison, Toni.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Toni Morrison's wooded and verdant clearing, a central trope in her novel Beloved, is the model for Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing. This book attempts to reproduce the character and spirit of Morrison's metaphorical terrain by offering readers the first interdisciplinary overview of Morrison's artistry, broadly-writ. The collection is a distinctive review, examination, and (re)discovery of Morrison's work and cultural impacts as defined by emerging and acc

Contents:

Toni Morrison Forty Years in The Clearing; The Gathering; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Forty Years and More in the Clearing: Selected Morrison Chronology, 1970-2012; Introduction: Gather at the Clearing; In the Beginning, Two Reviews: John Leonard's New York Times 1970 Review of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's New York Times "Letter to the Editor" in Response to Sara Blackburn's 1973 Review of Sula; In Search of the Clearing; Trouble in Paradise: Representing Bliss in Non-Orgiastic Language; "Margaret's Lullaby" (from Margaret Garner)

"Creatively Serving - the Process:" An Interview with Playwright Lydia Diamond, Author of the Play The Bluest EyeAmerican Romance, the Moral Imagination and Toni Morrison: A Theory of Literary Aesthetics; Meditations on Love; And Everyone Will Answer; Morrison as Subject: Photographs; Wrestling Till Dawn: On Becoming an Intellectual In the Age of Morrison; Playing in the Wild: Toni Morrison's Canon and the Wild Zone; "Looking Shakespeare in the Face:" An Interview with Toni Morrison's Howard University Friends, Florence Ladd and Mary Wilburn

Melancholy and the Unyielding Earth in The Bluest EyeCo(n)ven(t): A Performance Study of Toni Morrison's Paradise; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?: Food, Race, and [En]countering the Modern in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby; Testimony and Transformation: An Exploration of the Intersections of the Arts of Toni Morrison and the Potential Therapeutic Uses of Her Narratives; Belief and Performance, Morrison and Me; Praise Song for Toni Morrison; Morrison and Obama; Body Difference in Toni Morrison's Fiction; Toni Morrison, Théodore Géricault, and Incendiary Art; Morrison as Muse: The Poetic Process

15 Haiku (for Toni Morrison)The Making of a Novelist (Epistolary); Beloved Bodies: Gestures toward Wholeness; Bibliography: Works by Toni Morrison (cited in this volume); Other Sources (cited in this volume); Secondary Sources

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-61148-492-8

1-299-13909-4