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What Moves at the Margin by Toni Morrison (Hardcover - Univ Pr of Mississippi)
 

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What Moves at the Margin by Toni Morrison (Hardcover - Univ Pr of Mississippi)
Three decades of the author's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society provide an intriguing glimpse into her unique perspective as an observer of the world, the arts, and the changing landscape of American culture, in a compelling collection.

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Mercy by Toni Morrison (Paperback - Large Print)
 

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Mercy by Toni Morrison (Paperback - Large Print)
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith--in an evocative novel set against late seventeenth-century America, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. (Historical Fiction)

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Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison (Paperback - Reprint)
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author illuminates the "Africanist" presence shaping the American imagination in a landmark work of literary criticism. "Morrison challenge(s) some of the most widely accepted generalizations about our literary history".--San Francisco Chronicle.

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Mercy by Toni Morrison (Hardcover - Alfred a Knopf Inc)
 

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Mercy by Toni Morrison (Hardcover - Alfred a Knopf Inc)
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith--in an evocative novel set against late seventeenth-century America, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. 300,000 first printing.

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Toni Morrison by Nancy J. Peterson (Paperback - Johns Hopkins Univ Pr)
 

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Toni Morrison by Nancy J. Peterson (Paperback - Johns Hopkins Univ Pr)
The 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Toni Morrison is well established as one of the leading voices in American letters. Even so, her novels are often read narrowly rather than expansively, read as literary artifacts rather than as dynamic cultural texts. Without ignoring the literary and artistic achievements of Morrison's writing, Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Ap-proaches calls attention to the cultural and political dimensions of her work. Drawing on a diverse range of ap-proaches and theories-from W. E. B. DuBois to deconstruction and postmodernism, from black feminist criticism to reader response-these essays investigate such timely issues as debates about canonization, about race and gender divisions in America, about the founding assumptions of African American identity. Contributors: Barbara T. Christian, Marianne DeKoven, Dwight A. McBride, Patricia McKee, Richard C. Moreland, Toni Morrison, Rafael Perez-Torres, Nancy J. Peterson, James Phelan, Eusebio L. Rodrigues, Judylyn S. Ryan, Caroline M. Woidat "These essays exemplify the kinds of issues being addressed in the nineties by scholars of Morrison and by the profession more broadly. The topics of the individual essays vary, but read together, they offer valuable insights into why Morrison has become a much celebrated, widely taught author."-from the Introduction

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Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison (Hardcover - Harvard Univ Pr)
 

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Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison (Hardcover - Harvard Univ Pr)
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World--without the mandate for conquest". Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. Her compelling point is that the central characteristics of American literature--individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell--are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examine the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of Huckleberry Finn.A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction. Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.

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The Dancing Mind by Toni Morrison (Hardcover - Random House Inc)
 

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The Dancing Mind by Toni Morrison (Hardcover - Random House Inc)
On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the reading/writing life in our time.

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Mercy by Toni Morrison (Compact Disc - Unabridged)
 

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Mercy by Toni Morrison (Compact Disc - Unabridged)
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith--in an evocative novel set against late seventeenth-century America, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. Simultaneous.

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The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu (Hardcover - Greenwood Pub Group)
 

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The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu (Hardcover - Greenwood Pub Group)
The first book of its kind, this reference offers hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries on Morrison's works, major characters, themes, and other topics. Lengthier essays cover each of her novels, along with various approaches to her writings. Each of the entries was written by an expert contributor, and many close with suggestions for further reading.

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Toni Morrison by Jill Matus (Paperback - Manchester Univ Pr)
 

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Toni Morrison by Jill Matus (Paperback - Manchester Univ Pr)
This is an illuminating and original introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction, focusing on its engagement with African American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. Jill Matus approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history. She argues that Morrison sees African American history -- from the times of slavery to the continued racial oppressions of the twentieth century -- as a history of traumatic experience, and explores how this powerful storyteller bears witness to a painful yet richly enlivening past. Morrison's novels are known for their great lyric power, but they often dwell on scenes of horror, and Matus emphasizes the uneasy relations of memory, pain and pleasure in literature. In doing so, she sheds new light on Morrison as a contemporary writer working at a time when literature is being urgently explored for its capacity to memorialize and testify.

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