Wagner-Martin Toni Morrison

A Literary Life
2. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-88590-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Lives

A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison-fiction, non-fiction, and other-drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison's intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion of God Help the Child, The Origin of Others, and The Source of Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on Morrison's major literary contributions, but also trace her significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the consistency of Morrison's aesthetic and political visions.  


Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. She has written and edited more than eighty books, has won a number of teaching awards, and such grants as the Guggenheim, the Senior National Endowment for the Humanities, ACLS, Ford, and Rockefeller-and been a fellow at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and the Radcliffe Institute. She was awarded the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Service to American Literature. Her book The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou (2021) has been nominated for the Plutarch Prize. In the Palgrave Macmillan Literary Lives series, she has published works on Emily Dickinson (2013), Sylvia Plath (2003), John Steinbeck (2017), Walt Whitman (2021), and Ernest Hemingway (second edition, 2022).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner-Martin, Linda

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;Acknowledgments and Conventions;10
3;Contents;12
4;1: Introduction: Morrison’s Early Years;14
4.1;Morrison’s First Novel, The Bluest Eye, 1970;20
4.2;Morrison’s Second Novel, Sula, a Feminist Conundrum;26
5;2: Song of Solomon: One Beginning of Morrison’s Career;34
6;3: Tar Baby and Other Folktales;52
7;4: Beloved, Beloved, Beloved;66
8;5: Jazz and Morrison’s Trilogy: New York in the 1920s;84
9;6: Morrison as Public Intellectual;101
10;7: The Nobel Prize in Literature and Morrison’s Trilogy;117
11;8: Morrison and the Twenty-first Century: Love;132
12;9: Morrison and Various Mercies;144
13;10: Morrison and the Definitions of Home;156
14;11: God Help the Child: Morrison’s Coming Full Circle;170
15;12: Morrison and The Origin of Others: The Source of Self-Regard;190
16;13: Coda;211
17;Bibliography;214
17.1;Primary Work;214
17.2;Novels;214
17.3;Books for Children;214
17.4;Edited Collections;215
17.5;Nonfiction Books;215
17.6;Films;216
17.7;Other Writings;216
17.8;Papers;219
17.9;Secondary, Selected;219
17.10;Online Sources;245
18;Index;246