Research Guides
Guideposts to Research: Toni Morrison
Reference Books to Consult (REF)
African American Almanac. 9th ed. "Toni Morrison," pp. 828-829. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2003. (Call Number: REF E 185 .N385 2003)
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. "Toni Morrison," p. 1343. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999. (Call Number:
REF DT 14 .A37435 1999)
Black Literature Criticism, Volume 3. "Toni Morrison," pp. 1422-1445. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1992. (Call Number: REF PS 153 .N5 B556 1992)
Black Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. 3rd ed. "Toni Morrison," pp. 496-506. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 1999. (Call Number: REF E 185.96 .B545 1999)
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volumes 4, 10, 22, 55, 81, 87. "Toni Morrison." Consult Cumulative Index in last volume of this series for updates. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1973- (Call Number: REF PN 771 .C59)
Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature "Toni Morrison," pp. 786-788. New York: Continuum, 2001. (Call Number: REF PR 603 .C6 2001)
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, Volume 4. "Toni Morrison," pp. 1856-1857. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. (Call Number: REF E 185 .E54 1996)
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Volume 3. "Toni Morrison," pp. 308-309. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999. (Call Number: REF PN 771 .E5 1999)
Great American Writers: Twentieth Century, Volume 8. "Toni Morrison," pp. 1049-1070. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2002. (Call Number: REF PS 221 .G74 2002)
Literature and Its Times, Volume 4. "The Bluest Eye," pp. 49-57. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1997. (Call Number: REF PN 50 .L574 1997)
Modern American Literature, Volume 2. "Toni Morrison," pp. 338-342. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1999. (Call Number: REF PS 221 .M53 1999)
Oxford Companion to Womens Writing in the United States. "Toni Morrison," pp. 578-580. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (Call Number: REF PS 147 .O94 1995)
Reference Guide to American Literature. 4th ed. "Toni Morrison," pp. 621-623. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2000. (Call Number: REF PS 129 .R44 2000)
General Book Collection
Campbell, W. John. Toni Morrison: Her Life and Works. New York: Spark Publishing, 2003. (Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 Z585 2003)
Literary Masters, Volume 4: Toni Morrison. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Thomson, 2002. (Call Number: PS 3563 .O74922 2002)
Morrison, Toni. Beloved: A Novel. New York: Knopf, 1987. (Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 B4 1987)
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Plume Books, 1994. (Call Number: PS .O8749 B55 2000b)
Morrison, Toni. "From Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation" (1984). In Ervin, Hazel Arnett (ed.), African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000 (pp. 198-202). New York: Twayne Publishers, 1999. (Call Number: PS 153 .N5 A33 1999)
Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. New York: Vintage Books, 1992. (Call Number: PS 173 .N4 M67 1993)
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. New York: Knopf, 1981. (Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 T37 1987)
netLibrary e-Books
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Bouson, J. Brooks. Quiet As Its Kept: Shame, Trauma and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Eichelberger, Julia. Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow and Eudora Welty. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.
Proquest 5000
Selected examples of articles found using ProQuest 5000 Research Library offers 2,830 full-text titles, 1971 to the present.
West, Genevieve "The Aesthetics to Toni Morrison." "Speaking the Unspeakable." Studies in the Novel, Summer 2003 Vol. 35, Iss. 2, page 122.
"The Nobel-Winning Storyteller." U.S News & World Report, Oct. 10 1993 Vol. 15 , Iss. 15, page 19.
Related General Internet Resources
If you have a public library card, you can use the state of Florida databases available in the humanities and biography sections to research Toni Morrison.
Visit one of these public library web sites:
Broward County Library System Web site http://www.browardlibrary.org/
Miami Dade Public Library System http://www.mdpls.org/
"The Bluest Eye" accessed (5/4/2003) at http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/bluest.htm
