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Toni Morrison
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9781604133684
9780791081365
9780791061800
9780791071137
9780791052587
9781555464394
9780791081365
9780791061800
9780791071137
9780791052587
9781555464394
Table of Contents
From the Book
Self, society, and myth in Toni Morrison's fiction / Cynthia A. Davis
A hateful passion, a lost love / Hortense J. Spillers
Beyond realism : the fictions of Toni Morrison / Keith E. Byerman
Lady no longer sings the blues : rape, madness, and silence in The bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner
The crime of innocence in Toni Morrison's Tar baby / Terry Otten
Like an eagle in the air : Toni Morrison / Melvin Dixon
Haunted by their nightmares / Margaret Atwood
"The self and the other" : reading Toni Morrison's Sula and the Black female text / Deborah E. McDowell
Toni Morrison's Beloved / Roger Sale
The novelist as conservator : stories and comprehension in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Theodore O. Mason, Jr.
A different remembering : memory, history and meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Marilyn Sanders Mobley.
Unspeakable things unspoken : the Afro-American presence in American literature / Toni Morrison.
From the Book
Lady no longer sings the blues : rape, madness, and silence in The bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner
Like an eagle in the air : Toni Morrison / Melvin Dixon
The self and the other : reading Toni Morrison's Sula and the black female text / Deborah E. McDowell
A different remembering : memory, history and meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Marilyn Sanders Mobley
Sula : within and beyond the African-American folk tradition / Trudier Harris
Putting it all together : attempted unification in Song of solomon / Philip Page
Speaking the unspeakable : shame, trauma, and Morrison's fiction / J. Brooks Bouson
Contentions in The house of Chloe : Morrison's tar baby / Maria DiBattista
Sensations of loss / Michael Wood
Missing peace in Toni Morrison's Sula and Beloved / Rachel C. Lee.
From the Book
User's guide
The work in the writer / Harold Bloom
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Biography of Toni Morrison / Ellyn Sanna
Filling the gaps : the fictional world of Toni Morrison / Thomas March
Mixed genres and the logic of slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Carl D. Malmgren
Community and nature : the novels of Toni Morrison / Barbara Christian
Chronology.
From the Book
Biography of Toni Morrison --
[pt. 1]. Plot summary of The bluest eye --
List of characters in The bluest eye --
Critical views on The bluest eye: --
Madonne M. Miner on rape, madness, and silence in the novel --
Susan Willis on eruptions of "funk" in the novel --
Donald B. Gibson on text and countertext in the novel --
Linda Dittmar on the politics of form in the novel --
Toni Morrison on creating The bluest eye --
Linden Peach on the levels of irony in the novel --
[pt. 2]. Plot summary of Sula --
List of characters in Sula --
Critical views on Sula: --
Rita A. Bergenholtz on the novel as satire --
Marie Nigro on the novel's mythical community --
Barbara Christian on the community's use of Sula's "Evil Nature" --
Hortense J. Spillers on the character of Sula --
Melvin Dixon on the novel shifting patterns of accountability --
Trudier Harris on African American folk tradition and the novel --
[pt. 3]. Plot summary of Song of Solomon --
List of characters in Song of Solomon --
Critical views on Song of Solomon: --
Wilfred D. Samuels on the depth of the novel's male characters --
Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos on the needs of Hagar's feminine typology --
Harry Reed on the mother/son conflict in the novel --
Michael Awkward on the tragic ironies of the novel's male epic --
Doreatha Drummond Mbalia on Milkman's rise to race and class consciousness --
Jan Furman on Milkman's heroic quest --
[pt. 4]. Plot summary of Beloved --
List of characters in Beloved --
Critical views on Beloved --
David Lawrence on exorcising ghosts from body and community in the novel --
Bernard W. Bell on Morrison's womanist remembrances of things past --
Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos on the death of the maternal in Sethe --
Linda Krumholz on Beloved as a story of individual and national rememory --
Ashraf H. D. Rushdy on Seth's process of healing --
Caroline Rody on the novel as an historical novel --
Pamela E. Barnett on images of rape and the supernatural in the novel.
From the Book - New ed.
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Faulkner and Joyce in Morrison's Song of Solomon / David Cowart
Paradise: a warning not to "Africanize" exploitation / Doreatha Drummond
Mbalia
Experiencing jazz / Eusebio L. Rodrigues
Knitting and knotting the narrative thread: Beloved as postmodern novel / Rafael Pérez-Torres
Spacing and placing experience in Toni Morrison's Sula / Patricia McKee
Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from The bluest eye to jazz: the importance of Tar baby / Malin Walther Pereira
Toni Morrison's new bildungsromane: paired characters and antithetical form in The bluest eye, Sula, and Beloved / Anne T. Salvatore
The "female revealer" in Beloved, jazz and paradise: syncretic spirituality in Toni morrison's trilogy / Sharon Jessee
Love's time and the reader: ethical effects of nachträglichkeit in Toni Morrison's Love / Jean Wyatt.
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