Circles Of Sorrow, Lines Of Struggle: The Novels Of Toni Morrison (Louisiana PBK); Author: Grewal, Gurleen; Paperback

Author: Grewal, Gurleen
Louisiana PBK Edition; Southern Literary Studies; Paperback
168 pages
Published: October 2000
Louisiana State University Press
ISBN: 0807126438

This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and reconstructs social memory. Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle portrays Nobel laureate Morrison as a historiographer attempting to bridge the gap between emergent black middle-class America and its sub-alternorigins.Gurleen Grewal demonstrates how Morrison's novels perform a therapeutic and political function of recovery. What is most compelling about Morrison's fiction, Grewal posits, is its reevaluation of the individual via the complex sociopolitical heritage that bespeaks the individual. Ultimately, these fictive circles of sorrow invite the reader into the collective struggle of humankind whA study of Toni Morrison's first six novels. Gurleen Grewal situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and reconstructs social memory. Her circles of sorrow invite readers into the collective struggle of humankind.