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This critical anthology focuses on Toni Morrison's fiction covering novels from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child. The structure of the anthology follows a chronological order starting with an overall assessment of Morrison's fiction and its place in the African American literary canon followed by critical evaluation of her individual novels. The essays problematize the connections between history, identity, gender, race, color and community as explored by Morrison in her novels. They make for an exhaustive study of thematic and stylistic complexities of Morrison's fiction that chronicle her continuing engagements with the reality of Afro-American experiences. Besides their distinct theoretical and critical emphasis, the contributions to this volume effectively demonstrate how Morrison not only offers new visions of shifting engagements with the African American history of slavery in the present times but also her proficiency to engage her readers in a discourse by exploring a 'counter-memory' of the past in black history.