Toni Morrison's Fiction

<p>This collection of contemporary criticism explores her concern with racial and gender issues and analyzes her in relation to other major modern authors her philosophical and religious speculations and her preoccupation with the process of fiction-making.<br>These classics provide a broad look at critical argument about Toni Morrison's meanings and significance during the past 10 years. From the formative effects of learning one's Otherness as a result of majority perception to the apocalyptic implications of racial memory to the moral and psychologically constructive act of storytelling to the structural function served by improvisational jazz music to the imagery associated with both flight and naming to the uniquely female experience of community-major issues raised by Morrison's body of work are explicated here.</p>