Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison

JOHN DUVALLl is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University.

• Introductory Identifications: Making it Up or Finding It? Invisible Name and Complex Authority in The Bluest Eye : Morrison's Covert Letter to Ralph Ellison Engendering Sexual/Textual Identity: Sula and the Artistic Gaze Song of Solomon , Narrative Identity, and the Faulknerian Intertext Descent in the 'House of Chloe': Rape, Race, and Identity in Tar Baby The Authorized Morrison: Reflexivity and the Historiographic

'...an important contribution to Morrison criticism...it gestures toward powerful issues at the center of Morrison's work...' - Erik Dussere, Novel 'The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison is, without question, the most engaging book on Morrison I have ever read.' - Michael Awkward '..an effective new way to read one of our most important writers.' - South Atlantic Review