Abstract
Though this is not the first volume to consider what makes [Toni Morrison]'s literary aesthetic unique and important-especially, The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable, ed. by Marc Conner (CH, May'01, 38-4889), addressed this issue as well-[Baillie]'s volume is notable for attending closely both to the aesthetic and literary traditions that Morrison draws on in each of her ten novels and to the political, historical, and social contexts in which she is positioned and out of...