The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction and critical

Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is perhaps the most important living American author. This work examines Morrison's life and wri

This collection of contemporary criticism explores her concern with racial and gender issues and analyzes her in relation to other major modern authors, her phi

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma�

Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison’s work has