Toni Morrison

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Impact and significance

Her fiction placed Black people's interior lives at the centre of American literature, examining how slavery, racism and family history shape memory and relationships.

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Works in the archive

• The Bluest Eye (1970)
• Song of Solomon (1977)
• Beloved (1987)
• Nobel Prize in Literature (1993)

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Sources and access

• Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize biographical record
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
• Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.

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