Author: Valerie Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521456043
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The essays collected here, written by leading critics of Toni Morrison's work, exemplify the fresh theoretical and cultural perspectives that have been brought to bear on African-American texts in general and on Song of Solomon in particular. They reveal the complexities of a deceptively straightforward novel and spark renewed interest in this pivotal text by one of the most gifted authors this nation has produced.
New Essays on Song of Solomon
Author: Valerie Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521456043
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The essays collected here, written by leading critics of Toni Morrison's work, exemplify the fresh theoretical and cultural perspectives that have been brought to bear on African-American texts in general and on Song of Solomon in particular. They reveal the complexities of a deceptively straightforward novel and spark renewed interest in this pivotal text by one of the most gifted authors this nation has produced.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521456043
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The essays collected here, written by leading critics of Toni Morrison's work, exemplify the fresh theoretical and cultural perspectives that have been brought to bear on African-American texts in general and on Song of Solomon in particular. They reveal the complexities of a deceptively straightforward novel and spark renewed interest in this pivotal text by one of the most gifted authors this nation has produced.
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Author: Jan Furman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195146352
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195146352
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
Song of Solomon
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448103916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home. As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now comes Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path. Along the way, he will lose more than he could have ever imagined. Yet in return, he will discover something far more valuable than gold: his past, his true self, his life-long dream of flight. ‘A complex, wonderfully alive and imaginative story’ Daily Telegraph ‘Song of Solomon...profoundly changed my life’ Marlon James INTRODUCED BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES **Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448103916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home. As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now comes Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path. Along the way, he will lose more than he could have ever imagined. Yet in return, he will discover something far more valuable than gold: his past, his true self, his life-long dream of flight. ‘A complex, wonderfully alive and imaginative story’ Daily Telegraph ‘Song of Solomon...profoundly changed my life’ Marlon James INTRODUCED BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES **Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**
New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs
Author: June Howard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521426022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This is a collection of new essays on one of the most important works of New England local colour fiction, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett. It builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the importance and value of Jewett's work, but goes beyond previously published studies by offering an analysis of how race, nationalism, and the literary marketplace shape her narrative. The volume constitutes a major rethinking of Jewett's contribution to American literature, and will be of broad interest to the fields of American literary studies, feminist cultural criticism, and American studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521426022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This is a collection of new essays on one of the most important works of New England local colour fiction, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett. It builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the importance and value of Jewett's work, but goes beyond previously published studies by offering an analysis of how race, nationalism, and the literary marketplace shape her narrative. The volume constitutes a major rethinking of Jewett's contribution to American literature, and will be of broad interest to the fields of American literary studies, feminist cultural criticism, and American studies.
Toni Morrison Box Set
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593082230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
A box set of Toni Morrison's principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner). Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. This spellbinding novel tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who escapes to Ohio, but eighteen years later is still not free. In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty and yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes, that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. With Song of Solomon, Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as she follows Milkman Dead from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, introducing an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593082230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
A box set of Toni Morrison's principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner). Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. This spellbinding novel tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who escapes to Ohio, but eighteen years later is still not free. In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty and yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes, that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. With Song of Solomon, Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as she follows Milkman Dead from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, introducing an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.
The American
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543072266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The American A social comedy about Christopher Newman, an American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Along the way, he finds a widow from an aristocratic French family.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543072266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The American A social comedy about Christopher Newman, an American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Along the way, he finds a widow from an aristocratic French family.
Rewriting Black Identities
Author: Rebecca Ferguson
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052011677
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Topics include: 'Complexity and Continuity'; 'Transition, Exclusion and Illusion'; 'The Use of an Eye'; 'Fragmentation and Reconstruction'; 'Shifting Foundations'; 'Living History'; and more.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052011677
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Topics include: 'Complexity and Continuity'; 'Transition, Exclusion and Illusion'; 'The Use of an Eye'; 'Fragmentation and Reconstruction'; 'Shifting Foundations'; 'Living History'; and more.
New Essays on Wise Blood
Author: Michael Kreyling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521445740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This 1995 volume of critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novelquestions our understanding of the 'Southern Gothic'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521445740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This 1995 volume of critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novelquestions our understanding of the 'Southern Gothic'.
Signs and Cities
Author: Madhu Dubey
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226167283
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the face-to-face communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226167283
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the face-to-face communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression.
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