Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook (Casebooks in Contemporary Fiction) (Casebooks in Criticism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195107977 ISBN 13: 9780195107975

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1999

Synopsis

With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray.

This casebook to Morrison's classic novel presents seven essays that represent the best in contemporary criticism of the book. In addition, the book includes a poem and an abolitionist's tract published after a slave named Margaret Garner killed her child to save her from slavery―the very incident Morrison fictionalizes in Beloved.

About this title

About the Author:

William L. Andrews is at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Nellie Y. McKay is at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0195107977
• ISBN 13: 9780195107975
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Andrews William L.