The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel Beloved, and was also the first African‐American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. She is celebrated not only for her own contribution to African‐American literature, however, but also for her social and literary criticism of narrative technique and language and for promoting other African‐American authors through her work as editor at Random House. In this Cambridge Companion editor Justine Tally, and other academic specialists in African‐American literature from Europe and the USA, present a detailed and comprehensive study of Morrison's body of work, examining her...