The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison Book

Notes on contributors     ix
Chronology     xiii
Introduction: "All necks are on the line"   Justine Tally     1
Toni Morrison's Fiction
The Bluest Eye and Sula: black female experience from childhood to womanhood   Agnes Suranyi     11
Song of Solomon and Tar Baby: the subversive role of language and the carnivalesque   Joyce Hope Scott     26
Beloved or the shifting shapes of memory   Claudine Raynaud     43
Jazz and Paradise: pivotal moments in black history   Shirley Ann Stave     59
The Morrison trilogy   Justine Tally     75
Love and the survival of the black community   Mar Gallego     92
The artistic impulse of Toni Morrison's shorter works   Abena P. A. Busia     101
Toni Morrison's Criticism and Editing
Toni Morrison's literary criticism   Hanna Wallinger     115
Toni Morrison's social criticism   Sami Ludwig     125
Toni Morrison, editor and teacher   Cheryl A. Wall     139
Essays
Language and narrative technique in Toni Morrison's novels   Judylyn S. Ryan     151
Toni Morrison, intellectual   Dwight A. McBride     162
Morrison and the critical community   Deirdre J. Raynor   Johnnella E. Butler     175
Further Reading
Works   Toni Morrison     187
Selected critical reading     189
Index     192