Toni Morrison: Conversations

by Carolyn C. Denard (Editor)

Overview

Thirty years of interviews with the author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and other novels

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604730197
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	06/01/2008
Series:	Literary Conversations Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Carolyn C. Denard is the author of scholarly essays on Toni Morrison and the forthcoming Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison. She is Associate Dean of the College at Brown University and founder of the Toni Morrison Society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     ix
Chronology     xix
"I Will Always Be a Writer"   Jessica Harris     3
The Triumphant Song of Toni Morrison   Paula Giddings     10
An Interview with Toni Morrison   Pepsi Charles     17
Faulkner and Women$dFaulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference     24
Interview with Toni Morrison   Eugene Redmond     29
Interview with Toni Morrison   Donald Suggs     32
A Conversation with Toni Morrison   Audrey T. McCluskey     38
A Bench by the Road: Beloved by Toni Morrison The World: The Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association     44
An Interview with Toni Morrison   Salman Rushdie     51
Toni Morrison: The Art of Fiction   Elissa Schappell     62
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison Speaks about Her Novel   Jazz Angels Carabi     91
Chloe Wofford Talks about Toni Morrison   Claudia Dreifus     98
Interview with Toni Morrison   Cecil Brown     107
"I Come from People Who Sang All the Time": A Conversation with Toni Morrison   Sheldon Hackney     126
Toni Morrison   Zia Jaffrey     139
Conversation: Toni Morrison   Elizabeth Farnsworth     155
Loose Magic: A. J. Verdelle Interviews Toni Morrison   A. J. Verdelle     159
"Things We Find in Language": A Conversation with Toni Morrison   Michael Silverblatt     171
Blacks, Modernism, and the American South: An Interview with Toni Morrison   Carolyn C. Denard     178
Interview with Toni Morrison: "The Art of Teaching"   Ann Hostetler     196
Star Power   Adam Langer     206
The Nature of Love: An Interview with Toni Morrison   Diane McKinney-Whetstone     214
Michael Silverblatt Talks with Toni Morrison about   Love Michael Silverblatt     216
"I Want to Write like a Good Jazz Musician": Interview with Toni Morrison   Michael Saur     224
Pam Houston Talks with Toni Morrison   Pam Houston     228
Index     261