Role and significance of black community in Toni Morrison's fiction
Institution: | Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibarewala University |
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Year: | 2009 |
Keywords: | Black community; Toni Morrison; Fictions |
Record ID: | 1204956 |
Full text PDF: | http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/4126 |
Toni Morrison (1931- ), a Nobel laureate, has attained a central place in the American literary world. Her award-winning novels chronicle the lives of Afro-Americans and explore the impact of socio-historic forces pitted against them. Using precise, richly textured prose and compelling characters, Morrison deftly examines the role of family in her novels. In a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies dedicated to Morrison, guest editor Nancy J. Peterson makes the unarguable claim that and#8213;Morrison has become the American and African (woman) writer to reckon withand#8214; (464). Truider Harris rightly remarks that Morrison has entered literary superstardom: and#8213;By any standard of literary evaluation, Toni Morrison is a phenomenon in the classic sense of an once-in-alifetime rarityand#8214; (9). It is only justifiable then that her works have evoked wide and divergent critical responses. A broad overview of Morrison scriticism would reveal the nature and scope of various approaches to her work.%%%References p. 191-202