Critical essays on Toni Morrison / [compiled by] Nellie Y. McKay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McKay, Nellie Y., editor.

G.K. Hall & Company, publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Critical essays on American literature

Critical essays on American literature.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Morrison, Toni.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 219 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall & Co., 1988.

Contents:

Introduction / Nellie Y. McKay

Reviews. The bluest eye / Ruby Dee, Hakel Frankel ; Sula / Barbara Smith, Roseann P. Bell ; Song of Solomon / Melvin Dixon, Samuel Allen ; Tar Baby / Robert G. O'Meally, Valerie A. Smith

Essays and interviews. It's OK to say OK / Sandi Russell ; An interview with Toni Morrison, Hessian Radio Network, Frankfurt, West Germany / Rosemarie K. Lester

The novels. Roadblocks and relatives: critical revision to Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye / Michael Awkward ; Reconnecting fragments: Afro-American folk tradition in The Bluest Eye / Trudier Harris ; "The self and the other": reading Toni Morrison's Sula and the Black female text / Deborah E. McDowell ; Absence into presence: the thematics of memory and "missing" subjects in Toni Morrison's Sula / Robert Grant ; Genealogical archaeology or the quest for legacy in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Genevieve Fabre ; Song of Solomon: rejecting Rank's monomyth and feminism / Gerry Brenner ; "Life life life life": the community as chorus in Song of Solomon / Kathleen O'Shaughnessy ; The fabulous world of Toni Morrison: Tar Baby / Eleanor W. Traylor ; The briar patch as modernist myth: Morrison, Barthes and Tar Baby as-is / Craig H. Werner ; The convergence of feminism and ethnicity in the fiction of Toni Morrison / Carolyn Denard ; The dramatic voice in Toni Morrison's novels / Margaret B. Wilkerson ; Straining to make out the words of the "lied": the German reception of Toni Morrison / Anne Adams.

Notes:

"Copyright 1988 by Nellie Y. McKay"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has order form laid in.

ISBN:

081618884X

OCLC:

17383755