Toni Morrison : A Literary Life

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 Morrisons intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrisons 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 Morrisons major literary contributions, but also trace her significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the consistency of Morrisons aesthetic and political visions.