... all too well that “He is master who can define,” and that the process of naming and defining is not an intellectual game but a grasping of experience and a key to action. Copyright, ©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1984 1984 Fiction of Toni Morrison Perception and Power...

... and how. In the end Myers offers us a number of useful and provocative observations regarding language and our uses of it as they inform ethnic experience. Copyright, ©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1984 1984 Critique Fiction of Toni Morrison 52 Critique In "Stranger...

... core of Morrison's four published novels. Indeed, the subtitle of the article, “Characters in Search of a Self in the Fiction of Toni Morrison,” is perhaps a more accurate description of what the author properly finds to be basic to an understanding of Morrison's fiction. The need for people to achieve...

...; and, having thus named, that our very words decree the interpretation of everything we see. Critique Fiction of Toni Morrison Copyright, ©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1984 1984 (as Joan Didion once put it) so as to generate complex metaphors of tragedy, self-knowledge...