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first major collection of critical essays to appear since Morrison's death in mid-2019, this book contains peviously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions.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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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2023].
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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.