The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well as scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American letters, American modernism, and women-s writing. The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison-s writing within today-s currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison-s -trilogy- of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise alongside Dos Passos- USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of -influence- that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison, including an essay on Morrison as writer of children-s boo
