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Reading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison draws on contemporary scholarship and Morrison's own commentary to explicate all of her novels published to date, including her 2008 novel A Mercy. Morrison, the 1993 Nobel Prize winner, is an unabashedly confrontational author. Her profound and complex novels address problems such as slavery, violence, poverty, and sexual abuse. Morrison's work encompasses a project of total cultural renewal: she re-imagines and reaffirms the experience of African Americans from the earliest days of slavery up to the present, avoiding stereotypes or oversimplification. She employs African and Western literary traditions and conventions as a basis for both structure and critique, re-writing some of the master narratives of American culture and history. This book analyzes Morrison's novels in the context of African American history and literature, and provides supplemental material to guide teachers and students to understand and appreciate Morrison's novels.Product Identifiers
PublisherPeter Lang
ISBN-139781433102233
eBay Product ID (ePID)117422506
Product Key Features
Number of Pages196 Pages
Publication NameReading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLiterature, Zoology, Teaching
Publication Year2009
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaRegional History
AuthorKaren F. Stein
SeriesConfronting the Text, Confronting the World
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height230 mm
Item Weight300 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorKaren F. Stein