Toni Morrison, Beloved: A reader's guide to essential criticism

Plasa, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3819-4694, ed. 2000. Toni Morrison, Beloved: A reader's guide to essential criticism. Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism, Icon.

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Abstract

In this Readers' Guide, Carl Plasa presents and analyses the most important writings on Morrison's novel, beginning with a discussion of the novel's reception and a consideration of selected interviews with Morrison in the years following publication. Chapters are given to critical writings on the supernatural element of the work, with extracts from Deborah Horvitz, Elizabeth B. House and Pamela E. Barnett, and to treatments of the physical self, with essays from David Lawrence and Kristin Boudreau. In the final chapter, the Guide considers criticism which has focussed on postcolonial and postmodern perspectives. Throughout, Carl Plasa's narrative contextualises and clarifies the critical material on this complex and important work.

Item Type:	Book - edited
Book Type:	Edited Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PS American literature
Publisher:	Icon
ISBN:	9781840461381
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2026 17:10
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/78253

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