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1	The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison more books like this by Justine Tally (Editor) add to wishlist Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous ... see all copies from $5.58! new only from $16.67! \| SVS
2	Toni Morrison: Conversations more books like this by Carolyn C Denard (Editor) add to wishlist As a chronicler of the African American experience in fiction and as an incisive cultural commentator in her essays and lectures, Toni Morrison (b. 1931) is regarded as one of the world's most distinguished novelists and intellectuals."Toni Morrison: Conversations" draws together a superb collection of interviews with the Nobel Laureate that bring ... see all copies from $11.60! new only from $16.29! \| SVS
3	Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook more books like this by By William L Andrews Edited by William L Andrews, William L Andrews (Editor), Nellie Y McKay (Editor) add to wishlist With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the ... see all copies from $9.80! new only from $31.24! \| SVS
4	Beloved more books like this by Professor Nancy J Peterson add to wishlist "Beloved" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1987, which led up to Toni Morrison's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 and is the most-often taught novel by Morrison. It is a rich text, as well as a difficult one, in need of a student guide that can help undergraduates not only to understand the story but to develop sophisticated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.79!
5	Beloved more books like this by Mary Robinson, M.A. add to wishlist Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
6	The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the reading/writing life in our time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A Casebook more books like this by Jan Furman (Editor) add to wishlist The essays in this volume represent the major currents in critical thinking about "Song of Solomon", Toni Morrison's examination of the individual quest for self-knowledge in the context of African-American experience. see all copies from $4.19! new only from $4.19! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Conversations with Toni Morrison more books like this by Danille K Taylor-Guthrie (Editor), Toni Morrison add to wishlist This is a collection of interviews, beginning in 1974, with Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison describes herself as an African-American writer, and these essays show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American experience. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.70! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Toni Morrison's Paradise more books like this by Kelly Lynch Reames add to wishlist This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist, a full-length study of the novel, a summary of how the novel was received upon publication, a summary of how ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| SVS
10	New Essays on Song of Solomon more books like this by Valerie Smith (Editor), Emory Elliot (Editor) add to wishlist The essays collected here, written by leading critics of Toni Morrison's work, exemplify the fresh theoretical and cultural perspectives that have been brought to bear on African-American texts in general and on Song of Solomon in particular. They reveal the complexities of a deceptively straightforward novel and spark renewed interest in this ... see all copies from $5.08! new only from $27.81! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist "The Bluest Eye" is one of Toni Morrison's most powerful novels. The Nobel Laureate's debut is the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl who prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. This book presents an impressive collection of updated critical essays and an ... see all copies from $3.84! new only from $12.50! \| SVS
12 view cover	Toni Morrison more books like this by Douglas Century, Nathan I Huggins (Editor) add to wishlist The story of the eighth American--and first black--Nobel Prize-winning author of such modern masterpieces as "Beloved, Sula, The Bluest Eye" and "Paradise" is told in vivid detail, from her beginnings in Lorain, Ohio, to some of her most recent accomplishments. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| SVS
13 view cover	Toni Morrison more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist Professor Bloom has written a lengthy introduction and presents essays by major critics from a variety of perspectives on the work of Toni Morrison, author of "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.52! \| SVS
14 view cover	Toni Morrison more books like this by Jill L Matus add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $21.50! \| SVS
15 view cover	Toni Morrison: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature more books like this by Louisa Joyner, Random House, Margaret Reynolds add to wishlist In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Toni Morrison. "Vintage Living Texts" is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Toni Morrison, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Morrison's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.86! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Bluest Eye & Sula more books like this by Rosetta James, Louisa S Nye add to wishlist Ms. Morrison's first book, The Bluest Eye, tells the painful story of a 1940s black woman who obsesses over her desire to become white. Her futile longing for the "bluest eyes" eventually drives her mad, as she accepts someone else's definition of beauty and loses herself in a hopeless struggle. Sula concerns the growth and destruction of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.19! \| SVS
17 view cover	Toni Morrison's Fiction more books like this by Jan Furman add to wishlist In this introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning fiction of Toni Morrison, the author surveys six novels, a short story, and a book of criticism to reconstruct the development of Morrison's creative vision and to assess its influence on contemporary literature. She chronicles Morrison's growth as a writer and traces the recurrent characters, themes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Ideology more books like this by James M Decker add to wishlist This concise introduction to the concept of ideology provides an overview of the term and considers its impact on literary theory. James M. Decker analyses the history of Western ideology from its pre-Enlightenment roots to its current incarnations, providing readers with both an essential overview of key terms and issues and a thoughtful ... see all copies from $19.26! new only from $20.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Morrison's Beloved. more books like this add to wishlist Classified as historical fiction, gothic horror story, and bildungsroman, this novel tells the story of a woman who murders her daughter to protect her from the living hell of slavery. Told in flashbacks, memories, and nightmares, the story is difficult but rewarding. This concise supplement to Toni Morrison's Beloved helps students understand the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
20 view cover	Toni Morrison: Beloved more books like this by Carl Plasa (Editor) add to wishlist Summarizes the critical reaction to the American writer's 1987 novel. Includes chapters on immediate reviews and interviews, the relationship of the novel to the African-American slave narrative tradition, interpretation of the uncanny figure who give title to the novel, the figuring of male and fe see all copies from $11.99! new only from $19.08!
21 view cover	Writing Tricksters more books like this by Jeanne Rosier Smith add to wishlist This volume examines the resurgence of tricksters - ubiquitous shape-shifters who will dwell on borders, at crossroads and between worlds - on the contemporary cultural and literary scene. Depicitng a chaotic, multilingual world of colliding and overlapping cultures, many of America's most prominent women writers are writing tricksters. Taking up ... see all copies from $13.76!
22 view cover	Can't I Love What I Criticize?: The Masculine and Morrison more books like this by Susan Neal Mayberry add to wishlist Taking a close look at all the key male figures in Toni Morrison's eight novels, this book explores Morrison's admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the "axes" on which these relationships turn. Most Morrison scholarship deals with her female characters. "Can't I Love What I ... see all copies from $15.29! new only from $15.75! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable more books like this by Marc Cameron Reyes-Conner (Editor) add to wishlist A traditional yet fresh approach to grasping the power of Morrison's writing With essays by Yvonne Atkinson, Marc C. Conner, Susan Corey, Maria DiBattista, Barbara Johnson, Cheryl Lester, Katherine Stern, and Michael Wood Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as sagas illuminating history, race, culture, and ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $21.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor), Toni Morrison (Editor) add to wishlist This critical survey of Toni Morrison''s third novel features an introductory essay, author chronology and critical essays from leading scholars. Contributors include Wilfred D. Samuels, Valerie Smith, Harry Reed and Doroethea Drummond Mbalia.' see all copies from $12.62! new only from $50.51! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison more books like this by Arnold L Weinstein add to wishlist "Great art discovers for us who we are," writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House, has spent a lifetime guiding ... see all copies from $10.25! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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