...Evan Brier Abstract How should Toni Morrison’s work as a Random House editor be understood? How does it figure, that is, in the larger contexts of literary history, publishing history, and the history of African American expression? Positioning Morrison’s editorial work in relation to the corporate...

... in the way.) Morrison’s glinting remarks on her own work match those she offers on other writers. She notes her novel Paradise ’s premise of intraracial color hierarchy in its fictionalized Oklahoma Black world; she writes of her nineteen years at Random House editing Toni Cade Bambara, Angela Davis...

.... In the last decade, Toni Morrison’s Beloved hasservedasanemblematictext for those who work on trauma theory in African American literature. The themes of trauma and shame, however, run throughout Morrison’s work...

.... Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2001. xiv, 166 pp. $35.00. Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the Other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. By Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2001. xiii, 183 pp...

... of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf. By Lisa Williams. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xii, 194 pp. $59.95. In cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons, the trick is often to justify and elaborate...

... approaches that promise new scholarly directions in the field. 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 207 of 255 Peter Kvidera, John Carroll University In Defiance of the Law: From Ann Hutchinson to Toni Morrison. By Marisa Anne...

... Marjorie Signifyin(g) on Reparation in Pryse Toni Morrison’s Jazz In suggesting that the narrator in Jazz is the book itself, Toni Morrison enters several decades of critical conversation concerning the psychoanalytic, and particularly the transferential...

...Holly Flint Duke University Press 2006 Holly Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Flint Black Cultural Citizenship in the American Empire In 1980 historian William Appleman Williams warned that the only way to create viable American identities...

... ), Philip Roth in Indignation ( 2008 ), Chang-rae Lee in The Surrendered ( 2010 ), and Toni Morrison in Home ( 2012 ). In considering the literary afterlife of the Korean War, I begin with an analysis of the biopolitical logic of defense that arose after World War II during a time of American global...

..., and situating key literary figures—most prominently Charles Chesnutt—within this tradition. Chesnutt and others (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Toni Morrison among them) adapt and revise multiple mythic traditions—ancient and modern, “African” and “American,” “black” and “white”—to counter an exceptionalist...

... narratives including Alex Haley’s Roots (1976), Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979), Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose (1986), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008), this essay explores the tension between sentimentality...

... Wars: A History of Veteran America . Berkeley : Univ. of California Press . Dudziak Mary . 2012 . “ The Limits of Empathy in Toni Morrison’s Home .” OUPblog , May 28 . https://blog.oup.com/2012/05/the-limits-of-empathy-in-toni-morrisons-home/ . Espiritu Yến Lê . 2014...

... to audible traces of black maternity in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative , Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy (1892), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1977), the essay unearths the sonic frameworks through which black male subjectivity and ideologies of black...

...Susan Edmunds Abstract This essay argues that Essence magazine provides a crucial intertext for understanding Toni Morrison’s engagement in Tar Baby with the political debates that surrounded the “Black Is Beautiful” slogan in the black power era and her use of the Tar Baby story to dramatize...

... Heller’s Catch 22 to Toni Morrison’s Sula or Jazz. Travisano is right in claim- ing many forms for postmodernism, a term his book unwittingly calls into question. Nonetheless, this is one of the finest books of poetry criticism...

...) or black male writers (Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, and Aimé Césaire), Wilks focuses on four black women writers. The book’s alternative history of the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude enables new readings of contemporary feminist writers from Maryse Condé to Toni Morrison. Such a Rare Thing...

...Christopher Douglas Duke University Press 2006 Christopher What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Douglas Culture, Race, Identity Forays into family history are Toni Morrison’s stan- dard strategy for establishing character motivation in TheBluestEye...

... inter-American genre. Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels . By Jean Wyatt. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2017. x, 233 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $29.95; e-book, $29.95. “The structure is the argument,” Toni Morrison once said. Accordingly, Wyatt traces the shapeshifting...

... LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 207 of 252 The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf. By Lisa Williams. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xii, 194 pp. $59.95. In cross-cultural...

... with the past. Three recent studies analyze how this “historical turn” in black literary production and criticism has made texts such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) emerge as essential reading. Joanne Chassot, Aida Levy-Hussen, and Christopher Freeburg suggest that the historical turn reflects many writers...