When Toni Morrison’s seventh novel, Paradise, was published in 1998, this novelist was already among the most esteemed writers in the United States, having by then received the Nobel Prize for literature as well as many other major literary awards. In Paradise, the third novel in Morrison’s series on love (her working title for the novel was “War”) she presents an imaginative recreation of historical events during the late Reconstruction era and the turn of the century post-Reconstruction era in the United States. In this book, Morrison, as is the case with her earlier novels in this series (Jazz and Beloved), continues her archaeological excavation and reconstruction in literature of Afric

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Published 11 September 2003

Citation: Jimoh, A Yemisi. "Paradise". The Literary Encyclopedia. 11 September 2003.
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