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Morrison, Toni - 1931–, American writer, b. Lorain, Ohio, as Chloe Ardelia (later Anthony) Wofford; grad. Howard Univ. (B.A., 1953), Cornell Univ. (M.F.A., 1955). Her fiction is noted for its poetic language, lush detail, emotional intensity, and sensitive observation of American life as viewed from a variety of African-American perspectives. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), is the story of a girl ruined by a racist society and its violence. Song of Solomon (1977; National Book Award) established her as one of America's leading novelists. It concerns a middle-class man who achieves self-knowledge through the discovery of his rural black heritage. Her later fiction includes Beloved (1987; Pulitzer Prize), a powerful account of mother love, murder, and the legacy of slavery; and Jazz (1992), a tale of love and murder set in Harlem in the 1920s. Her other novels are Sula (1973), Tar Baby (1981), Paradise (1997), and Love (2003).

Among Morrison's other works are the essay collections Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power and Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (both: 1992); several children's books, including The Big Box (2000), written with her son, Slade; a play, Dreaming Emmett (1986); a song cycle, Honey and Me (1992), written with André Previn; and an opera, Margaret Garner (2003). Awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, she is the first African American to win the coveted prize. Morrison, who was an influential editor at Random House for nearly two decades, has been a professor at Princeton Univ. since 1989 and is the founder (1994) of the Princeton Atelier, a writers' and performers' workshop.

See studies by B. W. Jones (1985) and A. I. Vinson (1985); Conversations with Toni Morrison (1994).

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Understanding Toni Morrison's Beloved and Sula: Selected Essays and Criticisms of the Works by the Nobel Prize-Winning Author » Read Now
by Solomon O. Iyasere, Marla W. Iyasere. 381 pgs.

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Toni Morrison's "Beloved" is probably the most widely studied work of contemporary fiction, both in the United States and abroad. The novel appeals to readers across various disciplines; as such, it is now required reading in courses in English and American literature, feminist and multicultural...
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Toni Morrison's "Beloved" is probably the most widely studied work of contemporary fiction, both in the United States and abroad. The novel appeals to readers across various disciplines; as such, it is now required reading in courses in English and American literature, feminist and multicultural critiscism, and American history in universities and colleges around the world. The novel's universal appeal, with its unique structure and compelling story, has made it the subject of numerous scholarly essays published in reference journals. To make the best of these essays more accessible to university students, this book offers a volume of selected essays with a criticial introduction and annotated bibliography.
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Toni Morrison's Sula (literary criticism) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 247 pgs.

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-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature
-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
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Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion ("Chap. 4 "Sula (1973)") » Read Now
by Missy Dehn Kubitschek. 203 pgs.

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, Toni Morrison is among our most distinguished contemporary novelists. Morrison describes herself as a "black woman novelist," and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. Exploring the entire cycle of human life in a...
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, Toni Morrison is among our most distinguished contemporary novelists. Morrison describes herself as a "black woman novelist," and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. Exploring the entire cycle of human life in a spiritual context, her novels are also universal in their depiction of families, especially mothers and their children. From her first novel, The Bluest Eye, to her most recent, Paradise, Toni Morrison has explored the African American experience, and by extension, the human experience. The characters she creates linger in our minds long after we have finished reading the novel. This is the only book-length study of Morrison's novels to discuss all of her novels published to date.
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Decade of Novels: Fiction of the 1970s: Form and Challenge (Includes "Toni Morrison: Sula") » Read Now
by Charles Berryman. 128 pgs.

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". . . clear and illuminating—Berryman is . . . one of the finest essayists of the contemporary scene to show up in print over the last decade."—STUDIES IN THE NOVEL
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The Black Voice and the Language of the Text: Toni Morrison's Sula, in College Literature » Read Now
by Biman Basu. 16 pgs.

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Toni Morrison's World of Fiction (Chap. 3 "Sula") » Read Now
by Karen Carmean. 132 pgs.

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"Carmean's analysis . . . guides readers through the complex poetic metaphors toward their meaning. . . . Its annotated bibliography makes this book an important addition to academic libraries."—CHOICE
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Toni Morrison's 'Sula': A Satire on Binary Thinking, in African American Review » Read Now
by Rita A. Bergenholtz. 10 pgs.

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...Toni Morrisons Sula: a satire on binary thinking. by Rita A. Bergenholtz Attempts...1982): 9-22. Smith, Barbara. "Beautiful, Needed, Mysterious." Rev. of Sula, by Toni...
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"New World Woman": Toni Morrison's Sula, in Papers on Language & Literature » Read Now
by Maggie Galehouse. 24 pgs.

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..."New World Woman": Toni Morrisons Sula. by Maggie Galehouse I...Disorder: Madness and Evil in Toni Morrisons Sula." Black American Literature Forum 24...and the Other:...
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'Sula' and 'Beloved': Images of Cain in the Novels of Toni Morrison, in African American Review » Read Now
by Carolyn M. Jones. 12 pgs.

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...Sula and Beloved: images of Cain in the novels of Toni Morrison...jealousy as Cain does. Sethe acts out of pure desperation, and Sula, who feels Cains sense of rejection...
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War and Peace: Transfigured Categories and the Politics of 'Sula,' in African American Review » Read Now
by Patricia Hunt. 17 pgs.

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...transfigured categories and the politics of Sula. by Patricia Hunt In the...cultural categories of good and evil, Sula embodies what Morrison calls in The Bluest...The...
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Something Other Than a Family Quarrel: The Beautiful Boys in Morrison's Sula, in African American Review » Read Now
by Susan Neal Mayberry. 17 pgs.

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Missing Peace in Toni Morrison's 'Sula' and 'Beloved', in African American Review » Read Now
by Rachel Lee. 13 pgs.

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...Missing peace in Toni Morrisons Sula and Beloved. by Rachel Lee...describes both the "labor" of interpreting Sula and the richness evoked by its narrative...and Missing...
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Discourse and the Other: The Production of the Afro-American Text (Chap. 7 "The Song of Morrison's Sula: History, Mythical Thought, and the Production of the Afro-American Historical Past") » Read Now
by W. Lawrence Hogue. 196 pgs.

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...1976 , Christian establishes a tradition in novels by black women. In the first three historical chapters Christian...Novelists are devoted to the novels of Paule Marshall...
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Faith of a (Woman) Writer (Chap. 26 "A Way of Ordering Experience: A Study of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula") » Read Now
by Alice Kessler-Harris, William McBrien . 358 pgs.

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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34...
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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34 essays, contributed by some of today's most distinguished writers, speaks to the work of a particular 20th-century woman writer, and each constitutes a contribution to the scholarly debate.
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The Novels of Toni Morrison: The Search for Self and Place within the Community (Chap. IV "Sula: The Contradictions of Self and Place") » Read Now
by Patrick Bryce Bjork. 172 pgs.

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...31 IV. Sula: The Contradictions of Self...assuage their inadequacies by assuming positions of tenuous dominance. But Morrison is not intent upon merely...Morrison second...
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Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker (Chap. Three "Racial Discourse, Aesthetics, and Desire in Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula") » Read Now
by Elliott Butler-Evans. 227 pgs.

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...Afro-American Women Writers , 37 THREE Racial Discourse, Aesthetics, and Desire in Morrisons The Bluest Eye and Sula , 59 FOUR Desire, Ambivalence, and Nationalist-Feminist...