She provides a rich framework for the array of remarkable essays and seamlessly orchestrates the voices of the talented critical ensemble that the volume includes. Fultz offers solid contextualization for thinking about the novels in her introductory sections to each of the three major sections focused on them. From Lucille Fultz's introduction, it captures the global significance of Morrison's legacy and the worldwide scale of its celebration-a byproduct of her literary brilliance that also speaks to her pivotal role in the globalization of the novel. That these newer works have been taken up in critical analysis far less frequently than her earlier novels makes this volume all the more appealing, groundbreaking and revelatory.
What an excellent and absorbing essay collection focused on three of the Toni Morrison's most recent novels. Conner 10 Visions and Revisions of American Masculinity in A Mercy, Susan Neal Mayberry Notes on Chapters Works Cited Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index Stave 3 The Working Through of the Disconsolate: Transformative Spirituality in Paradise, Gurleen Grewal 4 Reclaiming the Presence of the Marginalized: Silence, Violence, and Nature in Paradise, Aoi Mori Part II Love 5 “Some to Hold, Some to Tell”: Secrets and the Trope of Silence in Love, Carolyn Denard 6 Power and Betrayal: Social Hierarchies and the Trauma of Loss in Love, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber 7 The Power in “Yes”: Pleasure, Dominion, and Conceptual Doubling in Love, Herman Beavers Part III A Mercy 8 Narrative Epistemology: Storytelling as Agency in A Mercy, Jami Carlacio 9 “What Lay Beneath the Names”: The Language and Landscapes of A Mercy, Marc C. Fultz Part I Paradise 2 Separate Spheres?: The Appropriation of Female Space in Paradise, Shirley A.
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Series Editor's Introduction Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Grace and Gravity of Toni Morrison, Lucille P.
Through their thematic interconnectedness, the essays reveal Morrison at her most brilliant in her ability to reach into the past to comment on contemporary issues. This volume provides students of literature, cultural studies, and history with an overview of Morrison's examination of African American progress and leadership at key moments in American history and culture from the Colonial Period to the present. Together, these essays offer comprehensive and nuanced discussions of Morrison's latest novels and provide new directions for Morrison scholarship in the 21st century. These selections examine Morrison's ongoing "romance" with African Americans as they continue to battle the demons of race, gender, class, and poverty, to name a few. Focusing upon Morrison's most recently published novels ( Paradise, Love, A Mercy) the contributors to this volume revisit issues that continue to engage Morrison and are part of the currency of contemporary American literary and cultural history.
Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award.
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