The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison

Kelly Reames (Curatore)

Linda Wagner-Martin (Curatore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2023

The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions.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 is wide-ranging, provocative, and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one of the greatest American novelists.

• Curatore: Kelly Reames, Linda Wagner-Martin
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Collana: Bloomsbury Handbooks
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 440 p.
• Dimensioni: 246 x 189 mm
• EAN: 9781350239920

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