New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child by ... - 9781496828880

New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the ChildRace, Culture, and History\nAuthor(s): Alice Knox Eaton, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Shirley A. Stave\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496828880, 978-1496828880\nSynopsis\nContributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-Gonzlez, and Anissa WardiIn her eleventh novel, God Help the Child, Toni Morrison returned to several of the signature themes explored in her previous work: pernicious beauty standards for women, particularly African American women; mother-child relationships; racism and colorism; and child sexual abuse. God Help the Child, published in 2015, is set in the contemporary period, unlike all of her previous novels. The contemporary setting is ultimately incidental to the project of the novel, however; as with Morrison's other w.