A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrisona�"fiction, non-fiction, and othera�"drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, this title provides an overview of Morrisona�TMs intellectual growth as an artist. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion of God Help the Child, The Origin of Others, and The Source of Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on Morrisona�TMs major literary contributions, but also trace her significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the consistency of Morrisona�TMs aesthetic and political visions.