Toni Morrison
(1931 -)
American novelist, essayist, editor, and playwright.
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Morrison, Toni (1931—)
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931, Toni Morrison is one of the most important authors of contemporary American literature. In the late 1970s through the 1980s and 1990s,...
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Toni Morrison - (1931 -)
(Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford) American novelist, essayist, playwright, critic, author of children's books, and editor.
In 1993, Morrison became the first African America...
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Biography EssayToni 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 C...
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Toni Morrison (born 1931) was best known for her intricately woven novels, which focused on intimate relationships, especially between men and women, set against the backdrop of African American cultu...
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"When they say I'm a great American novelist," Toni Morrison commented to Gail Caldwell in an interview published in Conversations with Toni Morrison, "I say, 'Ha! They're trying to say I'm not black....
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Toni Morrison was born and raised in Lorain, Ohio. "Only The Bluest Eye, my first book, is set in Lorain. In the others I was more interested in mood than in geography.... [However], no matter what I ...
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One of the most prominent contemporary analysts of the black experience, Toni Morrison has, within a decade, established herself as a significant American novelist. As a senior editor at Random Hous...
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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...
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[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 Seri...
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Critical Essay by Jane S. Bakerman
[Toni Morrison] has achieved major stature through the publication of only three novels. The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973) are brief, poetic works which explore ...
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Critical Essay by Pearl K. Bell
The life depicted in Toni Morrison's earlier novels drew its strength from her flawless recollection of a cherished and painful past. Tar Baby is set not on the ...
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In the following essay, Holloway examines Morrison's use of lyrical female voices in The Bluest Eye and The Song of Solomon as a celebration of African-American spirituality and cultural identi...
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In the following essay, Capuano examines references to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass, in Morrison's Beloved.
His voice was faint. ...
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In the following interview, Morrison discusses her career and her novel Love.
Distinguished American novelist Toni Morrison is in her Manhattan apartment, talking about “outlaw women.” D...
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In the following review, Charles discusses the interrelationships among the characters in Morrison's Love.
Readers who know Toni Morrison's work only from her surreal classic Beloved wil...
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In the following review, Mantel provides a plot synopsis of Morrison's Love, and offers a favorable assessment of the novel.
Toni Morrison has said in interviews that readers sometimes ask her:...
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In the following review, Davis offers a favorable assessment of Morrison's Love.
Toni Morrison's slim new novel, Love, may seem, at first glance, to fit within a group of books one could...
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In the following review, McDowell discusses the theme of love in Morrison's Love.
What is this thing called love that cannot stand alone, but depends on modifiers and conjunctions to complete i...
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In the following essay, Furman examines the significance of family and community to developing a personal sense of African-American female identity in Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula.
From t...
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In the following essay, Lewis argues that Morrison's Jazz may be categorized as a “jazz novel,” in that the narrative structure of the story is based on stylistic techniques of ja...
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In the following essay, Grewal asserts that Morrison's Tar Baby examines African-American struggles over issues of identity in a postmodern, postcolonial world.
And neither world thought the ot...
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In the following essay, Duvall examines elements of metafiction in relation to African-American female identity in Morrison's Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise.
With Tar Baby, Morrison lays to rest m...
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In the following essay, Jones examines the significance of references to the biblical story of Cain and Abel in Morrison's Sula and Beloved. Jones argues that Morrison's references to th...
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In the following essay, Davidson examines the role of narrative as a means of constituting community identity in Morrison's Paradise.
There is no document of civilization which is not at the sa...
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In the following essay, Hove provides an overview of elements of postmodernism in Morrison's fiction.
Although she regards herself first and foremost as an African-American writer, Toni Morriso...
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Toni Morrison is a black American writer. She was born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio her Christian name was Chloe Anthony Wofford. She grew up during the great depression. Toni was the only ...
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An ugly brown caterpillar slowly slithers its way up a branch, regarded as disgusting and unknown. However, as time progresses, it emerges from its cocoon, a magnificent butterfly, new, beautiful, an...
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To be a person deserving of pity is to be someone who has had a life of horrible and life-changing experiences. In the novel, Beloved, Sethe, the main character, is an escaped slave shown throughout t...
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