Toni Morrison

Focusing on Morrison's themes of trauma, history, and memory, Matus (English, U. of Toronto) sandwiches her critique of specific works (The Bluest Eyes, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise) between an essay on contexts and intertexts and a critical overview. Morrison continues W.E.B. Du Bois' legacy of countering the neglect of the black experience that haunts US history. The eclectic discussion spans the black aesthetic and black power movements, her 1993 Nobel Prize lecture, and other literary and political voices. Includes a chronology. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.