Toni Morrison

by Linden Peach

The novels of Toni Morrison, the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, are powerful not just because of their content - her themes include infanticide, rape, child abuse, murder and sexual jealousy - but because of their innovative form and language. This succinct critical introduction to her work seeks to make her novels more accessible to student and general reader alike through unravelling notions of self, representation and narrative structure which will be new to readers accustomed to Euro-American literary conventions.

211 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

Reviews

[Hollis Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was excellent. It's a critical survey of Morrison's work up until 2000. If you're a Morrison fan, I recommend it: it has greatly increased by understanding of Morrison and made me want to read her books all over again so I can appreciate them more this time.

[Will · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only read the essays on the books I’d read but they were all interesting