... , New York and began to work as an editor for Random House, which gave her free time in the evenings to raise her two small children as well as write novels. She moved to New York City where she continued to work as an editor for Random House in 1968. Morrison became a senior editor eventually and was the only African American ... as a publisher, she published books by several African American writers. She also enjoyed lecturing across the country, teaching part-time, and writing many novels ("Toni Morrison Biography"). The Bluest Eye was Morrison's first novel. Her novels are all carefu...

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Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. African American literature, has its origins in the 18th century, has helped African Americans to find their voice in a country where laws ... stereotypes and African American women have been develop to be seen as "living human being[s] with [their] own desires and needs" (Christian, Black Feminist Criticism 16). Within the novels, Toni Morrison presents the complex stories of African American experience, and especially African American women's experience and the...

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In Toni Morrison's novels, she describes the racial tension, the heritage of Blacks, and the struggles Blacks have to overcome in a world that doesn't accept them. While exploring these various emotions, Toni Morrison also ... ...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. Indeed, spirituality is a common thread woven through many of her characters. Morrison has a sharp insight into people as they relate to their ... ...

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... get the coins out of her left hand. Finally, he reaches over and takes the pennies from her hand. His nails graze her damp palm." (ibid. p.37) Both of the novels cannot avoid having a political bent. At the time the books were written or set Afro-Americans were fighting for basic human rights. The NAACP was in its infancy and changes ... ...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. Indeed, spirituality is a common thread woven through many of her characters. Morrison has a sharp insight into people as they relate to their ... ...

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Toni Morrison is the author of seven, critically acclaimed, novels and a professor at Princeton University. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and received grater recognition when in 1993, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first African- ... ...

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