Circles of Sorrow, Lines Struggle: The Novels Toni Morrison

This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison-- , and --situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and reconstructs social memory. Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle portrays Nobel laureate Morrison as a historiographer attempting to bridge the gap between emergent black middle-class America and its subaltern origins.