Toni Morrison by Smith

Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405160339)

Vendor: Valerie Smith
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$92.95
$92.95
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Toni Morrison by Smith

Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination

$92.95
Toni Morrison by Smith

Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination

$92.95
Format: Hardcover
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This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate's aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels.
  • Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly original contribution to the scholarship of one of the most important contemporary American writers
  • Analyzes the celebrated fiction of Morrison in relation to her critical writing about the process of reading and writing literature, the relationship between readers and writers, and the cultural contributions of African-American literature
  • Features extended analyses of Morrison's lesser-known works, most recent novels, and books for children as well as the key texts


Author: Valerie Smith
ISBN-10: 1405160330
ISBN-13: 9781405160339
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2012
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2013
By Valerie Smith
By Valerie Smith
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VALERIE SMITH is Dean of the College, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, and Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University, USA. Her numerous awards include fellowships from the Alphonse G. Fletcher Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Smith has written many essays and articles, and is author or editor of five books, including Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative (1988) and Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings (1998).

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