By Valerie Smith
This compelling research explores the inextricable hyperlinks among the Nobel laureate’s aesthetic perform and her political imaginative and prescient, via an research of the major texts in addition to her lesser-studied works, books for kids, and most modern novels.
- Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly unique contribution to the scholarship of 1 of an important modern American writers
- Analyzes the distinguished fiction of Morrison when it comes to her serious writing in regards to the technique of studying and writing literature, the connection among readers and writers, and the cultural contributions of African-American literature
- Features prolonged analyses of Morrison’s lesser-known works, most up-to-date novels, and books for kids in addition to the major texts
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