"Essays in this volume provide a clear overview of Toni Morrison and her accomplishments to date, beginning with discussions of Morrison's life and influence, continuing with articles on the critical contexts of her works, and focusing on critical readings of Morrison's involves from The Bluest Eye to Love."--About this volume.

On Toni Morrison / --Biography of Toni Morrison / -- The Paris review perspective / -- Toni Morrison : solo flight through literature into history / -- A context for understanding Morrison's work / -- The critical reception of Toni Morrison's work / -- Morrison's novels as texts, not works / -- Song of Solomon / -- Crying, dancing, laughing : the breaking and reunification of community in Beloved / -- Built on the ashes : the fall of the house of Sutpen and the rise of the house of Sethe / -- Refiguring the flesh : the word, the body, and the rituals of being in Beloved and Go tell it on the mountain / -- The projection of the beast : subverting mythologies in Toni Morrison's Jazz / -- In search of new subjectivity : identity in the novels of Toni Morrison / -- Prospero's spell and the question of resistance : Tar baby / -- Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from The bluest eye to Jazz : the importance of Tar Baby / -- "I been worried sick about you too, Macon" : Toni Morrison, the South, and the oral tradition / -- "Killing the White girl first" : understanding the politics of Black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise / -- A laying on of hands : Toni Morrison and the materiality of Love / Anissa Janine Wardi. On Toni Morrison -- Biography of Toni Morrison -- The Paris review perspective -- Toni Morrison : solo flight through literature into history -- A context for understanding Morrison's work -- The critical reception of Toni Morrison's work -- Morrison's novels as texts, not works -- Song of Solomon -- Crying, dancing, laughing : the breaking and reunification of community in Beloved -- Built on the ashes : the fall of the house of Sutpen and the rise of the house of Sethe -- Refiguring the flesh : the word, the body, and the rituals of being in Beloved and Go tell it on the mountain -- The projection of the beast : subverting mythologies in Toni Morrison's Jazz -- In search of new subjectivity : identity in the novels of Toni Morrison -- Prospero's spell and the question of resistance : Tar baby -- Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from The bluest eye to Jazz : the importance of Tar Baby -- "I been worried sick about you too, Macon" : Toni Morrison, the South, and the oral tradition -- "Killing the White girl first" : understanding the politics of Black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- A laying on of hands : Toni Morrison and the materiality of Love.