Toni Morrison: A Life in American History
Hardcover
Series: Black History Lives
Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresLiterary Figures
Publisher Price: $55.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Apr 15 2027
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Dive into the life of one of America's most key and influential authors.
Novelist, editor, scholar, teacher, public intellectual, mother, and contemporary griot for the African American community, Toni Morrison is one of the most important writers in American history. She is the author of numerous groundbreaking masterpieces including Beloved, Song of Solomon, and The Bluest Eye. Her expansive additional pursuits - which include decades of teaching, an influential editing career, a series of collaborative artistic projects and critical commentary on important national issues - supplement a collection of novels that the Swedish Academy, which bestowed the Nobel Prize on Morrison in 1998, described as characterized by visionary force and poetic import. From her best-known works to archival material, this biography aims to provide a thorough introduction to her life and works by providing key historical and social context to her writings. It will explore her influence in a variety of different areas including literature, publishing, teaching, popular culture, critical theory, and political discourse. The conclusion of this work considers Morrison's signal importance in American letters and culture while also pointing to evidence of how her legacy is carried on in the work of other artists, writers, poets and scholars.Also in
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