Toni Morrison: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) - Hardcover

Li, Stephanie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313378398 ISBN 13: 9780313378393

Publisher: Greenwood, 2009

Synopsis

This book is a revealing look at the life and work of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

Toni Morrison: A Biography looks at the remarkable life of an essential American novelist, whose critically acclaimed, bestselling books offer lively, powerful depictions of black America.

Toni Morrison follows the life of the woman born Chloe Ardelia Wofford from her culturally rich childhood in Lorrain, OH, through her spectacular rise as a novelist, educator, and public intellectual. The book also serves as a basic introduction to the literary influences that shaped Morrison's writing, from the early novels to the breakout success of Song of Solomon; from the overwhelming achievement of Beloved to her most recent book, A Mercy. The book also examines Morrison's other writing―criticism, essays, edited volumes, children's books―as well as her academic career, her work as an editor at Random House, and her political activism, most notably in the 2008 presidential campaign.

About this title

About the Author

Stephanie Li is Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University, USA. She has published 7 books including the award-winning, Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women (2010) as well as Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama (2011), Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects (2015), Signifyin(g) Immigrants: Twenty-First Century Pan-African American Literature (2018), and Ugly White People: Whiteness in Contemporary American Literature from the University of Minnesota Press. She is the co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Series, “Race in US Literature and Culture,” and has co-edited several special issues of American Literary History and Black Camera.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313378398
• ISBN 13: 9780313378393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192