Includes bibliographies and index

Introduction / Nellie Y. McKay -- Reviews. The bluest eye / Ruby Dee, Hakel Frankel ; Sula / Barbara Smith, Roseann P. Bell ; Song of Solomon / Melvin Dixon, Samuel Allen ; Tar Baby / Robert G. O'Meally, Valerie A. Smith -- Essays and interviews. It's OK to say OK / Sandi Russell ; An interview with Toni Morrison, Hessian Radio Network, Frankfurt, West Germany / Rosemarie K. Lester -- The novels. Roadblocks and relatives: critical revision to Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye / Michael Awkward ; Reconnecting fragments: Afro-American folk tradition in The Bluest Eye / Trudier Harris ; "The self and the other": reading Toni Morrison's Sula and the Black female text / Deborah E. McDowell ; Absence into presence: the thematics of memory and "missing" subjects in Toni Morrison's Sula / Robert Grant ; Genealogical archaeology or the quest for legacy in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Genevieve Fabre ; Song of Solomon: rejecting Rank's monomyth and feminism / Gerry Brenner ; "Life life life life": the community as chorus in Song of Solomon / Kathleen O'Shaughnessy ; The fabulous world of Toni Morrison: Tar Baby / Eleanor W. Traylor ; The briar patch as modernist myth: Morrison, Barthes and Tar Baby as-is / Craig H. Werner ; The convergence of feminism and ethnicity in the fiction of Toni Morrison / Carolyn Denard ; The dramatic voice in Toni Morrison's novels / Margaret B. Wilkerson ; Straining to make out the words of the "lied": the German reception of Toni Morrison / Anne Adams

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