Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics | by Yvette Christiansë | ‎ Fordham Univ Pr | ‎ English

Product description Review Christianse's Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics is an exceptional, even singular contribution to what has by now become a rather voluminous scholarly literature on Morrison's work. Given its critical acuity and its unparalleled breadth (treating all of Morrison's fiction through the 2008 novel A Mercy), Christianse's book will be an invaluable resource and scholarly model for those teaching and writing about Morrison.---Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University Book Description A luminously intelligent study of Toni Morrison's fiction by a scholar/writer whose own recent debut novel has been compared to Morrison's. About the Author Yvette Christainsë is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of two books of poetry, Castaway (Duke University Press, 1999) and Imprendehora (Kwela/Snail Press, South Africa, 2009). Her novel Unconfessed (Other Press, 2007, Kwela Books, 2007, Querido, 2007) was a finalist for the Hemingway/PEN Prize for first fiction and a recipient of a 2007 ForeWord Magazine BEA Award, and was shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2008 and the Ama Ata Aidoo Prize in 2010.Yvette Christainsë is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of two books of poetry, Castaway (Duke University Press, 1999) and Imprendehora (Kwela/Snail Press, South Africa, 2009). Her novel Unconfessed (Other Press, 2007, Kwela Books, 2007, Querido, 2007) was a finalist for the Hemingway/PEN Prize for first fiction and a recipient of a 2007 ForeWord Magazine BEA Award, and was shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2008 and the Ama Ata Aidoo Prize in 2010. Read more