The Bloomsbury handbook to Toni Morrison /

The first major collection of critical essays to appear since Morrison's death in mid-2019, this book contains peviously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reames, Kelly Lynch (Editor), Wagner-Martin, Linda (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2023].
Series:Bloomsbury handbooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword. Toni Morrison : a friend of my mind / Deborah E. McDowell
  • Introduction / Kelly L. Reames and Linda Wagner-Martin
  • The sight and sound of intersectionality in The bluest eye / Corinne Bancroft
  • Re-visiting the unspeakable : can Soaphead Church be redeemed? / Trudier Harris
  • Do you believe in magic? #BlackGirlMagic in The bluest eye / James A. Crank
  • 'Is? My baby? Burning?' : Segregation, soldiers, and civil rights in Toni Morrison's Sula / Thomas Fahy
  • Toni Morrison's female epistemology : post-nationalism, diaspora, and postcolonial futures in Tar baby, Mouth full of blood, and Paradise / Justine Baillie
  • 'How can I say things that are pictures?' Foregrounding in Beloved / Jennifer Larson
  • Rootlessness : Afro-pessimism as foundation in Paradise / Keith Clark
  • Love : Toni Morrison's African American Gothic / Jameela F. Dallis
  • 'A home for the heart' : rootlessness, Richard Wright, and Morrison's Home / Leslie Elaine Frost
  • The ancestor, passing, and imagination in Toni Morrison's God help the child / Janine Bradbury
  • Arcs of transcendence : the religious imagination of Toni Morrison / Gurleen Grewal
  • 'Unforgetting' : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice / Kristina K. Groover
  • Blues lives matter : reading Jazz in the era of George Floyd / Andrew Scheiber
  • Margaret Garner in history, opera, and as inspiration for Beloved / Kristine Yohe
  • Faulkner after Morrison / David H. Krause
  • Prospects for the public uses of 'Toni Morrison' / Kirk Curnutt
  • Going to ground in Home : Morrison's mid-century political modernism / Thadious M. Davis
  • 'Only white folks got the freedom to hate home' : strategic empathy and expanded intersectionality since Morrison's Home / Marijana Mikic and Derek C. Maus
  • Toni Morrison and the politics of literary generosity / Michael Nowlin
  • Soldiers, identity, and trauma : teaching Home in a war literature course / Jennifer Haytock
  • Cotton Mather's witches and Toni Morrison's Paradise / Janie Hinds
  • 'What are you without racism?' : Toni Morrison on perfectionism and white supremacy / Christopher S. Lewis
  • Teaching Morrison's Sula in the post-racial moment / Marc Dudley
  • 'Understanding all too well what is meant' : teaching Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif' / Catherine Seltzer
  • Toni Morrison's Home : one scene, four takes / Trudier Harris.