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Morrison at Work

• GETTING ESTABLISHED
• AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS AND TRADE PUBLISHING
• TECHNIQUES FOR WRITING
• THE WORK OF WRITING
• THEMES
• GETTING THE WRITING UNDER WAY
• MORRISON’S CHARACTERS
• NOTES

GETTING ESTABLISHED

Morrison has said time and again that when she began working on The Bluest Eye, she did not think of herself as a writer. Writing was then more of a diversion than a vocation, something she did for herself—the only thing she does for herself, she once told an interviewer.¹ Her professional priority was editing. As she explained to Robert Stepto in a 1976 interview, “What I want to do with an author is to get him into the position to do the best work he can, and then to try...

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1. Introduction
2. About Toni Morrison
3. Morrison at Work
4. Morrison’s Era
5. Morrison’s Works
6. Morrison on Morrison and on Writing
7. Morrison as Studied
8. Study Questions
9. Bibliography
10. Copyright

1. Toni Morrison