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Contributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-González, and Anissa Wardi<br><br> In her eleventh novel, <i>God Help the Child</i>, Toni Morrison returned to several of the signature themes explored in her previous work: pernicious beauty standards for women, particularly African American women; mother-child relationships; racism and colorism; and child sexual abuse. <i>God Help the Child</i>, published in 2015, is set in the contemporary period, unlike all of her previous novels. The contemporary setting is ultimately incidental to the project of the novel, however; as with Morrison’s other work, the story takes on mythic qualities, and the larger-than-life themes lend themselves to allegorical and symbolic readings that resonate in light of both contemporary and historical issues.<br><br> <i>New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's “God Help the Child”: Race, Culture, and History</i>, a collection of eight essays by both seasoned Morrison scholars as well as new and rising scholars, takes on the novel in a nuanced and insightful analysis, interpreting it in relation to Morrison’s earlier
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- Author
- Eaton, Alice Knox (editor);Montgomery, Maxine Lavon (editor);Stave, Shirley A. (editor)
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781496828927
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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