Contributor
McKay, Nellie Y.
Imprint:Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1988.
Descriptionviii, 219 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:REVIEWS: Black family search for identity [review of The Bluest Eye] / Ruby Dee. - [Review of The Bluest Eye] / Haskel Frankel. - Beautiful, needed, mysterious [review of Sula] / Barbara Smith. - [Review of Sula] / Roseann P. Bell. - 'If you surrender to the air....' [Review of Song of Solomon] / Melvin Dixon. - [Review of Song of Solomon] / Samuel Allen. - "'Tar Baby, she don't say nothin'" [Review of Tar Baby] / Robert G. O'Meally. - Remembering one's ancient properties [Review of Tar Baby] / Valerie A. Smith. -ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS: Conversations from abroad. 'It's ok to say ok' [an interview essay] / Sandi Russell. - An interview with Toni Morrison, Hessian Radio Network, Frankfurt, West Germany / Rosemarie K. Lester. -THE NOVELS: The Bluest Eye: Roadblocks and relatives: critical revision in Toni Morrison's The BLuest Eye / Michael Awkward. - Reconnecting fragments: Afro-American folk tradition in The Bluest Eye / Trudier Harris. - Sula: 'The self and the other': reading Toni Morrison's Sula and the black female text / Deborah E. McDowell. - Absence into presence: the thematics of memory and 'missing' subjects in Toni Morrison's Sula / Robert Grant. - Song of Solomon: Genealogical archaeology or the quest for legacy in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Genevieve Fabre. - Song of Solomon: rejecting rank's monomyth and feminism / Gerry Brenner. - 'Life lie life life': the community as chorus in Song of Solomon / Kathleen O'Shaughnessy. - Tar Baby: The fabulous world of Toni Morrison: Tar Baby / Eleanor W. Traylor. - The briar patch as modernist myth: Morrison, Barthes and Tar Baby as-is / Craig H. Werner. -GENERAL TOPICS: The convergence of feminism and ethnicity in the fiction of Toni Morrison / Carolyn Denard. - The dramatic voice in Toni Morrison's novels / Margaret B. Wilkerson. - Straining to make out the words of the 'lied': the German reception of Toni Morrison / Anne Adams.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.
