[This entry was updated by Catherine E. Lewis (University of South Carolina) from the entry by Denise Heinze (Western Carolina University) in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series.] Toni Morrison became a novelist for the ages when...
Toni Morrison is one of America's most important writers of fiction. She has received critical acclaim, most notably the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987), the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon (1977), and the eighteen-thou...
When her picture appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1981 and her fourth novel, Tar Baby, was on the year's best-seller list, Toni Morrison was an anomaly in two respects: she is a black writer who has achieved national prominence and popularity, and sh...
Beloved by Toni Morrison Bom Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, Toni Morrison has emerged as one of the leading voices in American literature since the publication of her first novel, The Bluest Eye, (also covered in Literature...
Beloved is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison later wrote in the opera Margaret Garner (2005). In 1998 the novel...
Beloved: From Novel to Movie Book Author: Toni Morrison Movie Producer: Oprah Winfrey Movie Director: Jonathan Demme Paperback: Plume; ISBN: 0452280621, pp. 275 Hardback: Knopf; ISBN: 037540273X, pp. 322 "Enough of that slavery stuff." That was Oprah Winfrey changing the focus, as she...
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Knopf, 275 pp., $18.95) TONI MORRISON'S language is thick as menstrual flow. Rich as clotted milk on the shirtfront of a nursing mother. I adduce such images intentionally: the way, I'm sure, Toni Morrison herself did--to shock, to...
Hillary Clinton has shed the most famous tears since Alexander the Great wept that there were no more worlds to conquer. Observers have since noted that she was exhausted; that she was down in the polls; that she may have been on the prowl for...
Hey, the Queen looks good as a blonde! She thinks so too and let us know that she greatly enjoyed playing flamboyant dance show host Motormouth Maybelle in the fun musical film Hairspray. No stranger to musicals, the Queen was nominated for an Oscar for...
In the essay below, Rodrigues comments on the narrative techniques in Beloved, which he calls "a triumph of story-telling" and an example of "the blues mode in fiction."
In the following essay, Schapiro discusses the psychological and emotional dimensions of slavery in Beloved, which she praises for its historical depth and insight.
The atom was once thought to be indivisible, but its fissionability may be the thing that brings the earth to an end along with all beings. Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' resists repetition of the myth of the Fall and of Adam, while affirming it. Pre-Oedipal desire can be seen in the disaster. 'Beloved' tries also to deal with infanticidal violence of the father. The novel is about learning to see that the world denies its infanticidal appetite and does not see abjection imposed on a slave. 'Beloved' dramatizes
Examines the Toni Morrison novel, Beloved. Analyzes the theme of self realization. Describes the role of Beloved and reveals the character's importance in the novel.
A comparison of the works of two authors who wrote about slavery in America: Ulrich B. Phillips wrote "American Negro Slavery," and Toni Morrison wrote "Beloved." Phillips wrote in 1918 that slavery was a system that benefitted African-Americans. Morrison wrote in 1987 to tell the story of the lives of individual slaves, looking to write women into the history of slavery.
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