New Essays on Song of Solomon

The essays in this volume, first published in 1995, present a range of theoretical and cultural perspectives on Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.

Valerie Smith (Edited by)

9780521454407, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 January 1995

130 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.32 kg

The essays collected in this volume, first published in 1995, are written by leading critics of Toni Morrison's work and exemplify the theoretical and cultural perspectives that have been brought to bear upon African American texts in general and upon Song of Solomon in particular. They reveal the complexities of a deceptively straightforward novel and spark renewed interest in what has proven a pivotal text by one of the most gifted authors this nation has produced.

1. Introduction Valerie Smith
2. From orality to literacy: oral memory in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Joyce Irene Middleton
3. Call and response: voice community and dialogic structures in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Marilyn Sanders Mobley
4. Knowing their names: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Marianne Hirsch
5. The postmodernist rag: political identity and the vernacular in Song of Solomon Wahneema Lubiano.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]