[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...
The language is as graphic as the story is gripping. Rich with seduction and murder, the saga describes two African American girls growing up in a destitute barrio called "The Bottom" and is full of eclectic characters, even one who celebrates a National Suicide...
The author examines novelist Toni Morrison's fictional character Sula. Topics include community life, being black, and character motivations. I always thought of Sula as quintessentially black, metaphysically black, if you will, which is not melanin and certainly not unquestioning fidelity to the tribe....
A three-judge tribunal on Tuesday found two members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang guilty of killing 28 people in a shooting attack on a passenger bus, and acquitted two other men in the case.The Dec. 23, 2004 attack targeted a bus filled with 56 workers...
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Essay looks at how Morrison portrays evil and how she gives the reader the power to decide who is in the wrong, if there is anyone in Toni Morrison's "Sula and Bluest Eye."
The themes of racism and sexism in the novel "Sula" by Toni Morrison. Because the character of Sula defies convention and tries to break free of racist and sexist traditions, she is considered evil and is hated by her community.
Discusses Toni Morrison's book "Sula." Examines the significance of Nel and Sula's friendship. Maintains the relationship demonstrates how we tend to be attracted to people with personalities that differ from our own.
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