The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction and critical writings.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Bluest Eye (1970)
2. Sula (1973)
3. Song of Solomon (1977)
4. Tar Baby (1981)
5. Beloved (1987)
6. Jazz (1992)
7. Paradise (1997)
8. Love (2003)
9. A Mercy (2008); Home (2012); God Help the Child (2015)
Coda
Works Cited
Index

SUSAN MAYBERRY is Professor of English at Alfred University. She is author of Can't I Love What I Criticize: The Masculine and Morrison (2007; winner of the book award of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, Copenhagen Business School, 2009).