Toni Morrison

Jill Matus, John Thieme, Rebecca Mortimer

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English

Manchester University Press
23 July 1998

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Contemporary World Writers

An introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction, this text focuses on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. It approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history, and argues that Morrison sees African-American history - from the times of slavery to the continued racial oppressions of the 20th century - as a history of traumatic experience, and explores how this powerful storyteller bears witness to a painful yet enlivening past. Morrison's novels are known for their lyric power, but they often dwell on scenes of horror, and this text emphasizes the uneasy relations of memory, pain and pleasure in literature.

By: Jill Matus
Series edited by: John Thieme
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780719044489
ISBN 10: 0719044480
Series: Contemporary World Writers
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 23 July 1998
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Editor's foreword 1 Chronology 2 Contexts and Intertexts 3 Anger and Shame in The Bluest Eye 4 Sula: war and Peace traumas 5 Song of Solomon: raising Dead fathers 6 Tar Baby : a message mailed from under the sink 7 Beloved: the possessions of history 8 `A sweettooth for pain': history, trauma and replay in Jazz 9 Critical overview Notes Select Bibliography Index -- .

Jill Matus is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto