The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison by Kelly Reames, Lin... - 9781350504905

Name: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison by Kelly Reames, Lin... - 9781350504905
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni MorrisonAuthor(s): Kelly Reames, Linda Wagner-Martin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350504905, 978-1350504905\nSynopsis\nThe 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collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions.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 womens writing. \n\nThe book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrisons writing within todays currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrisons 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 .