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Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from 'The Bluest Eye' to 'Jazz': the importance of 'Tar Baby.'

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From: MELUS
Date: 19970922
Author:Pereira, Malin Walther

Toni Morrison's fourth book, 'Tar Baby,' marks when she broke free from the constraints white society places on African Americans who write about their culture. Her first three books present characters absorbed by white notions of beauty. Her two books following 'Tar Baby' present characters whose notions of beauty are defined by African American culture. 'Tar Baby' acts as the transition between these two periods.

It is a mark of an author's status as "major" when we begin to periodize their work. William Faulkner, Adrienne Rich, William Butler Yeats, Gwendolyn Brooks, and T.S. Eliot ...

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