Toni Morrison: Beloved

Carl Plasa

ISBN 10: 0231115261 / ISBN 13: 9780231115261

Published by Columbia Univ Pr, 1998

About this Item

Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Bookseller Inventory # GRP88187556

Bibliographic Details

Title: Toni Morrison: Beloved

Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Publication Date: 1998

Book Condition:Good

Edition: 0th Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Summarizes the critical reaction to the American writer's 1987 novel. Includes chapters on immediate reviews and interviews, the relationship of the novel to the African-American slave narrative tradition, interpretation of the uncanny figure who give title to the novel, the figuring of male and female bodies, and post-colonial and psychoanalytic perspectives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book Description:

With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide placesBeloved in the contexts of Morrison's oeuvre and other works of African American literature..