Song of Solomon | Social Concerns
Morrison's place in American literature was assured with the publication of her third novel, Song of Solomon, by far her most penetrating inquiry into the sources and causes of cultural alienation among African-Americans. The book earned many awards and established her as both a popular and as a serious novelist. Few writers of her generation would be so simultaneously admired by the critics and by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Building on the critique of materialism and racism in American society developed in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973), with this novel...
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