Her books include Paradise Reconsidered: Toni Morrison’s (Hi)stories and Truths (1999) and The Story of Jazz: Toni Morrison’s Dialogic Imagination (2001), and The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison (Ed. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987) she was. It keeps Denver fearful of straying from the house. Justine Tally is Professor of American Literature at the University of La Laguna, where she specializes in African American literature. TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. 2 Toni Morrison-author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby-is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination.It is the story-set in post-Civil War Ohio-of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death who has lost a husband and buried a child who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Sethe lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved.Sethe works at "beating back the past," but it is alive in all of them.
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