Critical Voices on Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate, is a much loved author in India and her writings have widespread appeal for our diverse pluralistic sensibilities. Her language is powerful and stirring and her themes of gender, race, myth, culture and history arouse the human communion with the self and the world. To read Morrison is to enrich one’s vision and understanding of the present through her narratives of the past. The publication of her novels are events that change the contours of scholarship and the critical lens through which African Americans—and indeed, all human beings and communities—perceive themselves. Her texts are studied in several Universities in India and are the subjects of vigorous debate and research. The present anthology is a collection of critical articles, some classic and others new. They cover scholarship on Morrison from her first book of fiction to the latest and will be of interest to students and Toni Morrison scholars across the country.