The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison : Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness - John N. Duvall

The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison

Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness

By: John N. Duvall

Paperback | 1 December 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Now available in a new paperback edition, The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison examines Morrison's hugely influential fiction, criticism, and interviews for traces of her struggle to construct a useable identity as an African American woman novelist. The only book to explore autobiographical tendencies in Morrison's fiction, Duvall's study:
-Provides in-depth chapters on Morrison's most frequently taught novels
-Uses Morrison's own words from interviews and essays as an important context for understanding her fiction
-Traces Morrison's critical engagement with modernist writers, particularly William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison
In a new Afterword, Duvall discusses Morrison's two most recent novels, Love and A Mercy, in the context of the author's recent disclosures about her Catholicism.
Industry Reviews

'...an important contribution to Morrison criticism...it gestures toward powerful issues at the center of Morrison's work...'

- Erik Dussere, Novel

'The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison is, without question, the most engaging book on Morrison I have ever read.'

- Michael Awkward

'..an effective new way to read one of our most important writers.'

- South Atlantic Review

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