Overview
- Illustrates Toni Morrison’s impact as an African American woman writer and public intellectual
- Situates Morrison’s novels within contemporary American literature
- Considers Morrison’s last writing including her novels, nonfiction, and critical writing
Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison—fiction, non-fiction, and other—drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison’s intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion of God Help the Child, The Origin of Others, and The Source of Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on Morrison’s major literary contributions, but also trace her significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the consistency of Morrison’s aesthetic and political visions.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. She has written and edited more than eighty books, has won a number of teaching awards, and such grants as the Guggenheim, the Senior National Endowment for the Humanities, ACLS, Ford, and Rockefeller—and been a fellow at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and the Radcliffe Institute. She was awarded the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Service to American Literature. Her book The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou (2021) has been nominated for the Plutarch Prize. In the Palgrave Macmillan Literary Lives series, she has published works on Emily Dickinson (2013), Sylvia Plath (2003), John Steinbeck (2017), Walt Whitman (2021), and Ernest Hemingway (second edition, 2022).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Toni Morrison
Book Subtitle: A Literary Life
Authors: Linda Wagner-Martin
Series Title: Literary Lives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88590-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88589-2Published: 09 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88590-8Published: 08 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-2037
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2045
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 245
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary History