Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison

<p>The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019 this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars as well as scholars who work in cultural criticism African American letters American modernism and women's writing. <p/>The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison's writing within today's currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison's trilogy of Beloved Jazz and Paradise alongside Dos Passos' USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of influence that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison including an essay on Morrison as writer of children's books and as speaker for children's education. In addition a Teaching Morrison section is designed to help teachers and critics who teach Morrison in undergraduate classes. <p/><i>The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison</i> is wide-ranging provocative and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one of the greatest American novelists.</p>