I wanted to use JSTOR to find what has been written academically about the current popular readers’ response, particularly in the African American community.
JSTOR is a great web source in finding articles from all kinds of publications. The one I found was from the African American Review.
I used the search tool, but opened it up to search in all articles. I searched for “black readings on Toni Morrison” and I actually found quite a few intriguing articles.
John Young
African American Review
Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 181-204
Published by: Indiana State University
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2903252
I learned a lot from this articles about the modern audiences of Toni Morrison, particularly those belonging to Oprah’s Book Club. It was an interesting insight into changing protocol of author involvement with readers through things like television and technology.
Toni Morrison was a Nobel and Pulitzer prize winner when she first appeared as a featured author on Oprah’s Book Club. The article discusses what the book club did in promoting Morrison and also discusses questions about the “Oprah effect” on Morrison’s books: did it increase or decrease their value? How has it changed the way that Morrison is viewed in academia? The article also gives a history of previous black writers and compares the limitations they faced that Morrison is striving to overcome in the postmodern world.
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