The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312234027)

Although all published biographical information on Toni Morrison agrees that her birth name was Chloe Anthony Wofford, John Duvall's book challenges this claim. Using new biographical information, he explores the issue of names and naming in Morrison's fiction and repeatedly finds surprising traces of the Nobel Prize-winning author's struggle to construct a useable identity as an African American woman novelist. Whatever the exact circumstances surrounding her decision to become Toni, one thing becomes clear: the question of identity was not a given for Morrison.

Author: J. Duvall
ISBN-10: 0312234023
ISBN-13: 9780312234027
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2001
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.73w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2002 pg. 1420