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Toni Morrison

A Literary Life

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  • © 2015

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  1. Linda Wagner-Martin
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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Morrison’s Early Years

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 1-23

  3. Song of Solomon: One Beginning of Morrison’s Career

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 24-43

  4. Tar Baby and Other Folktales

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 44-59

  5. Beloved, Beloved, Beloved

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 60-79

  6. Jazz and Morrison’s Trilogy: New York in the 1920s

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 80-98

  7. Morrison as Public Intellectual

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 99-116

  8. The Nobel Prize in Literature and Morrison’s Trilogy

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 117-134

  9. Morrison and the Twenty-first Century: Love

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 135-147

  10. Morrison and Various Mercies

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 148-161

  11. Morrison and the Definitions of Home

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 162-177

  12. Coda

    • Linda Wagner-Martin
    Pages 178-180

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 181-217
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About this book

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. The author 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 years.

About the author

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Rockefeller awardee, and a resident at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and the Bunting Institute. She recently received the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service to American literature. Her 2013 A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present is her 53rd book. She has written two other books for this series, one on Ernest Hemingway and the other, in both 1999 and 2003, on Sylvia Plath. She writes widely on twentieth-century American literature, biography, women's writing and pedagogy. Her publications include A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway (2000), William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism (2002), Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism (2009).

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