Toni Morrison's Fiction: Contemporary Criticism (Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture, V. 30.)

This collection of contemporary criticism explores her concern with racial and gender issues and analyzes her in relation to oher major modern authors, her philosophical and religious speculations, and her preoccupation with the process of fiction-making.

These classics provide a broad lok at critical argument about Toni Morrison's meanings and siggnificance during the past 10 years. From the formative effects of learning one's "Otherness' as a result of majority perception, to the apocalyptic implications of racial memory, to the moral psychologically constructive act of storytelling, to the structural function served by improvisational jazz music, to the imagery associated with both flight and naming, to the uniquely female experience of community--major issues raised by Morrison's body of work are explicated here.