BTAN3014MA04
North American Department, IEAS, University of Debrecen, Fall 2012
Topics in North American Literature after 1900
THE LIFE AND ART OF TONI MORRISON
Fall 2012
TH 10:00-11:40
Rm.: main bldg. 119
Zoltán Abádi-Nagy, office: main bldg., 120/2
Phone: (52) 512-900/22507 (no voice mail)
E-mail: abnagyzo@yahoo.com
Office hours: TH 11:40-12:30
and by appointment.
Make-up classes, when needed:
Prospectus
The seminar will be a figure course, involving a detailed study of Nobel-laureate Toni
Morrison’s art of fiction, through discussions of some major novels as well as some of her
theoretical writing and interviews. The world of her fiction confronts us with, is also
thematically representative and technically illustrative of, much that has been at the centre of
social-cultural as well as literary debates in America the past four decades. Thus, reading and
discussing her texts requires immersion in, or, at least basic familiarity with theories of race
and ethnicity, Cultural Studies and Cultural Criticism, postcoloniality, self and (cultural)
identity, psychoanalysis, Gender Studies and Black Feminism, modernity and postmodernity,
deconstruction, intertextuality, dialogism, orality and the vernacular, magical realism, readerresponse criticism, rhetorical criticism, genre theory, narrative theory, and
reconceptualizations in (New) American Studies.
Class Format: discussion combined with brief lecture sections and debates
Credit: 3 credit hours.
General Course Requirements
Students will be expected to attend class faithfully, to keep up with the readings, and to come to
class prepared with questions and comments for discussion. The classes will be conducted in an
atmosphere in which the instructor and the students take the time to discuss readings and share
their insights. We can set aside part of any class meeting for informal discussion of our work if
needed.
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Specific Requirements
Reader's journal; informed attendance; participation in class discussion; presentation; writing
workshop; in-class essay; out-of-class essay; final test.
Presentation
One ten-minute presentation (or fifteen minutes if two students team up to do one): an
exposition and critique of a PRINTED critical essay based on any ONE of these theories: race
and ethnicity, Cultural Studies and Cultural Criticism, postcoloniality, self and (cultural)
identity, psychoanalysis, Gender Studies and (Black) Feminism, modernity and
postmodernity, deconstruction, intertextuality, dialogism, orality and the vernacular, magical
realism, myth, psychoanalysis, reader-response criticism, rhetorical criticism, genre theory,
narrative theory, or one Morrison essay (from Playing in the Dark or elsewhere)—in relation
to any ONE Morrrison novel. The presenter’s aim is to generate a good debate by using the
interrogative (question-and-answer) method. Sign-up deadline for presentations: February 19.
(Maximum two presentations per class session.) Sign-up sheet available.
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Writing Assignments
JOURNAL—Each student will keep a reader's journal in a separate notebook, making
an entry of at least one page per assigned reading, raising at least one pertinent issue for
classroom discussion. You are free to choose your own topics. (More about this in
class.) The journal entries may be hand-written or typed, as you prefer. Journals will be
collected at least twice during the term, beginning the fourth week of class.
PAPERS—1) The in-class essay topics will be based on the novels discussed up to that
point (topic assigned). 2) The out-of-class essay (eight double-spaced, word-processed
pages) will be both theoretically guided and a topic of your own designing. (This will be
elaborated in class.) It is a research essay, with at least 2 printed sources quoted. You
can sign up for individual conference sessions in my office hours if you have difficulty
in designing a topic. The take-home essay will be discussed in a peer workshop before it
is submitted. The writing workshop is fundamental to the course. Students who do not
participate in it, because they are absent without good cause or do not have a fully
drafted version of their paper, will lose 5 points on the grade of the paper once it is
handed in. You must give me and your fellow students copies in the class preceding the
project session week. For due date see "Schedule" below. Assignments 1 and 2 will be
discussed in detail in class. 3) The final test will be cumulative, a combination of
various kinds of identification questions. It will be described more fully in class near the
end of the semester.
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N.B.
1. Documentation, format—When you consult or quote a source, document it according to the
usual academic principles. In all matters of form, use the MLA format. If you have questions
about how to do so, ask me, or ask a librarian for the 4th or 5th edition of the MLA
Handbook.
2. Editing—Take pride in your work, edit it carefully, root out mechanical errors. Expect your
out-of-class paper and final exam essay to lose one point per five errors.
3. Font, margins—Out-of-class papers must be typed in an ordinary font. Those with
abnormally wide margins or typeface, will be returned unmarked, and must be resubmitted
as directed.
4. Late paper policy—The presentation deadlines are not negotiable. Out-of-class essays can
be submitted on May 7 at the latest, without penalty.
5. Academic misconduct—Plagiarism will not be tolerated. You can be assigned a grade of F
for it. The Institute of English and American Studies expects its students to adhere to the
university’s code of student conduct, especially as it pertains to academic misconduct.
The following statement must be typed on the title page of your essay and signed in
hand: “This paper has been prepared in full awareness of the international norms of
academic conduct.”
Grading
Participation in discussion (inclusive of occasional quizzes—unannounced, and
evaluated on an S/F basis, F meaning a loss of one point in each case—designed to check if you
have actually read the day’s reading) will count 10%,
journal: 10%,
presentation 10%,
in-class essay 10%,
take-home essay 30%,
final test 30%.
A/5=91-100; B/4=81-90; C/3=71-80; D/2=61-70; F/1 is 60% or below.
N.B.
1. Course requirements—The out-of-class essay and the final test are course requirements
in that without satisfying these, you cannot pass the course.
2. Incompletes—Incomplete grades will be possible only if you must miss classes or the final
test because of verified illness or for scheduled activities of official university student
organizations—if (this applies to the latter case) I am notified in advance of your absence.
3. Absence policy—Grades can be lowered for three unexcused absences and denied for more
than three. If circumstances exist that cause you to be absent more than twice in the
semester, make an appointment to speak to me about your progress in the course. However,
more than three unexcused absences will automatically fail the course. It is possible to fail
the course by absences alone.
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4. Tardy policy—Tardiness and early departures are not allowable. They are offensive to your
fellow students and to the instructor because they disrupt class work. If you have a
compelling reason for arriving late or leaving early, speak with me about the problem. If you
regularly cut the beginning and/or the end of class sessions, it can add up to unexcused fullclass-time absences.
5. Extra credit—You can get 10 extra credits for researching and electronically submitting the
periodical bibliography of any ONE of the Morrison novels (except Jazz); or, for reading
Morrison’s Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, or A Mercy (two students each) and preparing a twopage, single-spaced handout (story and brief discussion of themes – one page each) about
the novel of your choice. (Introducing and discussing one of her two nonfiction books – The
Dancing Mind or Playing in the Dark – is also possible.) More about this in class. A sign-up
sheet will be made available.
6. Borderline grades—If your grade is borderline, it depends on attendance and the general
pattern of your work (performance improvements) if you can get a break.
7. Discussing grades—If you have questions about how I evaluated your work, please stop by
to see me. It is my policy to discuss grades in person only, and not over the telephone.
8. Disabilities policy—Students who need course adaptations or accommodations because of
certified disability or who have emergency medical information to share, should speak to me
after the first class meeting.
SCHEDULE
Month
Day
September
20
Orientation
27
The Bluest Eye 1: “Autumn,” Winter”
4
The Bluest Eye 2: “Spring,” “Summer”
October
Assignments
Sign-up deadline for presentations
5
Month
Day
Assignments
October
11
Sula 1: “Part One”
25
Sula 2: „Part Two“
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November
8
Start conferences as needed
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Song of Solomon 1: Part I, chs 1-3
In-class essay
December
15
Song of Solomon 2: Part I, chs 4-9
22
Song of Solomon 3: Part II, chs 10-15
29
Beloved 1: One/1-2
6
Beloved 2: Two and Three
Writing workshop
13
Jazz 1
20
Jazz 2
Final test
TEXTS:
Out-of-class essays due
Morrison’s novels and essay volume in various editions.
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Recommended Theoretical and Critical Reading
THEORY, GENERAL CRITICISM
(Items indicated as “IL” are available in the Institute’s Library.)
Baker, Houston A., Jr. Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic.
Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1988.
Barkan, Elliott Robert, ed. A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America’s Multicultural
Heritage. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
Barrett, Lindon. Blackness and Value. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. IL
Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
Buenker, John D., and Lorman A. Ratner, eds. Multiculturalism in the United States: A
Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
Cooke, Michael G. Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale UP,
1984. IL
De Weever, Jacqueline. Mythmaking and Metaphor in Black Women’s Fiction. New York:
St. Martin’s, 1991. IL
Dickson-Carr, Darryl. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction.
New York: Columbia UP, 2005. IL
Evans, Mari, ed. Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation. New York: Anchor,
1984. IL
Fisher, Dexter, ed. The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States. Boston:
Houghton, 1980. IL
Galens, Judy, Anna Sheets, and Robyn V. Young, eds. Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural
America. Vols. 1 and 2. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1995.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism.
New York: Oxford UP, 1988.
---, ed. Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology. New York: Meridian, 1990. IL
Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in
America. New York: Bantam, 1984.
Graham, Maryemma, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. IL
Hernton, Calvin C. The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex,
Literature, and Real Life. New York: Doubleday, 1987.
Hogue, W. Lawrence. Race, Modernity, Postmodernity. Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.
Juan, E. San, Jr. Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the
Politics of Difference. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002.
Lee. A. Robert. Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America.
London: Pluto, 1998.
---. Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/s and
Asian American Fictions. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2003.
Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York:
Vintage, 1972.
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Levine, Lawrence W. The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture and History.
Boston, MA: Beacon, 1996.
McKee, Patricia. Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison.
??? IL
Miller, John J. The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism has Undermined the
Assimilationist Ethic. New York: Free, 1998.
Muller, Gilbert H. New Strangers in Paradise:The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary
American Fiction. Lexington KY: UP of Kentucky, 1999.
Napier, Winston, ed. African American Literary Theory: A Reader. New York: New York UP,
2000. IL
Olney, James, ed. Afro-American Writing Today. Anniversary issue of Southern Review.
Baton Rouge. LA: U of Louisiana P, 1989.
Palumbo-Liu, David, ed. The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions.
Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995.
Reed, Ishmael, ed. MultiAmerica: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace. New York:
Viking, 1997.
Ruiz, Vicki L., and Ellen Carol DuBois, eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multi-Cultural Reader in U.S.
Women’s History. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Russell, Cheryl. Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and
Whites. Ithaca, NY: New Strategist, 1998.
Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Random/Vintage, 1978.
San Juan, E., Jr. Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the
Politics of Difference. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society.
New York: Norton, 1992.
Schmidt Alvin J. The Menace of Multiculturalism: Trojan Horse in America. Westport, CT:
Praeger, 1997.
Singh, Armritjit, Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., and Robert E. Hogan, eds. Memory, Narrative, and
Identity: New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures. Boston: North Eastern UP, 1994.
---, and Peter Schmidt, eds. Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and
Literature. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000.
Sollors, Werner, ed. The Invention of Ethnicity. New York, Oxford UP, 1989.
---, ed. Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader. New York: New York UP, 1996.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. New York:
Thernston, Stephen, ed. Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard UP, 1980.
Williams, Lisa. The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. IL
Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman, ed. Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A
Reader. New York: Columbia, 1994.
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CRITICISM—AUTHOR AND INDIVIDUAL WORKS
(Items indicated “IL” are available in the Institute’s Library)
MORRISON – background literature and general works on Morrison
Abádi Nagy Zoltán. “Toni Morrison.” Mai amerikai regénykalauz, 1970-1990. Budapest: 1995.
379-81. IL
Adams, Anne. “Straining to Make Out the Words to the ‘Lied’: The German Reception of Ton
Morrison.” McKay, Critical Essays 190-214. IL
Atkinson, Yvonne. “Language That Bears Witness: The Black English Oral Tradition in the
Works of Toni Morrison.” Conner 12-30. IL
Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann. Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative:
Femininity Unfettered. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. IL
Bjork, Patrick Bryce. The Novels of Toni Morrison: The Search for Self and Place within
the Community.
Bloom, Harold. Toni Morrison. Modern Critical Views S.
Bouson, J. Brooks. Quiet As It’s Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni
Morrison. Albany: State U of New York P, 2000.
---. “’Speaking the Unspeakable’: Shame, Trauma, and Morrison’s Fiction.” Bouson 1-21.
Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins UP, 1996. IL
Christian, Barbara T. “Layered Rhythms: Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison.” Peterson 19-36.
Conner, Marc. C., ed. The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable. Jackson:
P of Mississippi, 2000. IL
---. “From the Sublime to the Beautiful: The Aesthetic Progression of Toni Morrison.” Conner
49-76. IL
Davis, Cynthia A. “Self, Society and Myth in Toni Morrison’s Fiction.” Peach, Toni Morrison
(New Casebooks) 27-42.
Dennard, Carolyn. “The Convergence of Feminism and Ethnicity in the Fiction of Toni
Morrison.” McKay, Critical Essays 171-79. IL
DeKoven, Marianne. “Postmodernism and Post-Utopian Desire in Toni Morrison and E. L.
Doctorow.” Peterson 111-30.
Drake, Kimberly. “Rape and Resignation: Silencing the Victim in the Novels of Morrison and
Wright.” Literature Interpretation Theory 6.1 (1995): 63-72.
Eyerman, Ron. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the formation of African American identity (sic).
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. IL
Furman, Jan. Toni Morrison’s Fiction. Understanding Contemporary American Literature.
1996.Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1999.
Gates, Henry Louis, and K. A. Appiah, eds. Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and
Present.
Harding, Wendy, and Jacky Martin. “Projections of Self,” and “Modes of Belonging in
Community.”A World of Difference: An Inter-Cultural Study of Toni Morrison’s
Novels.Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. 13-35, 87-109.
Harris, Trudier. Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison. Knoxville: U of Tennessee
P, 1991. IL
Hirsh, Marianne. The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism.
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Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989. IL
Hogue, W. Lawrence. Race, Modernity, Postmodernity. Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.
---. “Race, Modernity, Postmodernity: A Look at the History of People of Color since the
1960s.” Hogue 1-27.
Kella, Elizabeth. Beloved Communities: Solidarity and Difference in Fiction by Michael
Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Joy Kogawa. Uppsala: Uppsala U, 2000. IL
Khayati, Abdellatif. “Representation, Race, and the ‘Language’ of the Ineffable in Toni
Morrison’s Narrative.” African American Review 33.2 (1999): 313-24.
Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood,
1998.
Lester, Cheryl. “Meditations on a Bird in the Hand: Ethics and Aesthetics in a Parable by Toni
Morrison.” Conner 125-38. IL
Matus, Jill L. Toni Morrison. Contemporary World Writers. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1998.
---. “Contexts and intertexts.” Matus 1-36.
McBride, Dwight A. “Speaking the Unspeakable: On Toni Morrison, African American
Intellectuals and the Uses of Essentialist Rhetoric.” Peterson 131-52.
McKay, Nellie Y., ed. Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Boston: Hall, 1988. IL
---, and Kathryn Earle, eds. Approaches to Teaching Toni Morrison.
Middleton, David L., ed. Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Contemporary Criticism. New York:
Garland. 1997.
Morey, Ann-Janine. “Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison: Reflections on Postmodernism and
the Study of Religion and Literature.” David L. Middleton 247-68.
Morrison, Toni. “Nobel Lecture 1993.” Peterson 267-73.
---. “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation.” Evans 339-60. IL
Page, Philip. Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison’s Novels.
Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995.
---. “Morrison’s Novels as Texts, Not Novels.” Page 26-36.
---. “What’s the World For If You Can’t Make It Up the Way You Want It?”Page 178-88.
Peach, Linden. Toni Morrison. Macmillan Modern Novelists. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1995.
Second edition. 2000. IL
---, ed. Toni Morrison. New Casebooks S. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.
---. “Language.” Toni Morrison 128-34.
Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.
---. “’Say Make Me, Remake Me’: Toni Morrison and the Reconstruction of African-American
History.” Peterson 201-21.
Pryse, Marjorie, and Hortense J. Spillers, eds. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary
Tradition.” Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985. IL
Reviews of Morrison’s novels. McKay, Critical Essays 19-39. IL
Rice, Herbert William. Toni Morrison and the American Tradition: A Rhetorical Reading.
Rigney, Barbara Hill. The Voices of Toni Morrison.
Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. “’Rememory’: Primal Scenes and Constructions in Toni Morrison’s
Novels.” David L. Middleton 135-61.
Russell, Sandi. “A Deeper Reckoning (1970s-present): Toni Morrison.” Render Me My Song:
African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present. New York: St. Martin’s,
1991. 91-114. IL
Sage, Lorna. Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists. Houndmills:
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Macmillan, 1992. (Morrison: 178-85.) IL
Samuels, Wilfred D., and Clenora Hudson-Weems. Toni Morrison.
Smith, Valerie. “Toni Morrison’s Narratives of Community.” Self-Discovery and Authority in
Afro-American Narrative. 122-53. IL
Stern, Katherine. “Toni Morrison’s Beauty Formula.” Conner 77-91. IL
Stepto, From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative. Urbana: U of Illinois P,
979.
Turner Darwin T. “Theme, Characterization, and Style in the Works of Toni Morrison.” Evans
361-70. IL
Taylor-Guthrie, Danielle, ed. Conversations with Toni Morrison. Jackson: UP of Mississippi,
1994.
Walker, Melissa. Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women’s Novels in the Wake of the Civil
Rights Movement. New Haven: Yale UP, 1991. IL
Wagner, Linda W. “Toni Morrison: Mastery of Narrative.” Contemporary American Women
Writers: Narrative Strategies. Ed. Catherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick.
Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1985. 191-205.
Wilkerson, Margaret B. “The Dramatic Voice in Toni Morrison’s Novels.” McKay, Critical
Essays 179-90. IL
Willis, Susan. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience. Madison: U of
Wisconsin P, 1987. IL
---. “Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison.” Willis 83-109. IL
Wood, Michael. “Sensations of Love.” Conner 113-24. IL
THE BLUEST EYE (1970)
Awkward, Michael. “Roadblock and Relatives: Critical Revisions in Toni Morrison’s The
Bluest Eye.” McKay, Critical Essays 57-68. IL
Bouson, J. Brooks. “’The Devastation That Even Casual Racial Contempt Can Cause’: Chronic
Shame, Traumatic Abuse, and Racial Self-Loathing in The Bluest Eye.” Bouson 23-45.
Furman, Jan. “Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood: The Bluest Eye and Sula.”
Toni Morrison’s Fiction 12-22.
Guerrero, Ed. “Tracking ‘The Look’ in the Novels of Toni Morrison.” David L. Middleton
27-41.
Harris, Trudier. “The Bluest Eye.” Fiction and Folklore 15-51. IL
---. “Reconnecting Fragments: Afro-American Folk Tradition in The Bluest Eye.” McKay,
Critical Essays 68-76. IL
Ledbetter, Mark. “Through the Eyes of a Child: Looking for Victims in Toni Morrison’s The
Bluest Eye.” Victims and the Postmodern Narrative, or Doing Violence to the Body: An
Ethic of Reading and Writing. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. 22-36. IL
Matus, Jill. “Shame and anger in The Bluest Eye.” Matus 37-54.
Miner, Madonne M. “Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The
Bluest Eye.” Pryse and Spillers 176-91. IL
Page, Philip. “The Break Was a Bad One: The Split World of The Bluest Eye.” Page 37-59.
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Peach, Linden. “The Bluest Eye.” Toni Morrison 24-38.
Walker, Melissa. “From the Great War to World War II: The Bluest Eye.” Walker 47-60. IL
Wallace, Michele. “Variations on Negation and the Heresy of Black Feminist Creativity.”
Gates, Reading Black, Reading Feminist 52-67. IL
Tirrell, Lynne. “Storytelling and Moral Agency.” David L. Middleton 3-25.
Williams, Lisa. (Virginia Woolf and The Bluest Eye) Lisa Williams 23-74. IL
SULA (1973)
Baker, Houston A., Jr. “Knowing Our Place: Psychoanalysis in Sula.” Peach, Toni Morrison
(New Casebooks) 103-109.
Bouson, J. Brooks. “’I Like My Own Dirt’: Disinterested Violence and Shamelessness in Sula.”
Bouson 47-73.
Dubey, Madhu. “’No Bottom and No Top’: Oppositions in Sula.” Peach, Toni Morrison (New
Casebooks) 70-88.
Furman, Jan. “Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood: The Bluest Eye and Sula.”
Toni Morrison’s Fiction 22-33.
Gillespie, Diane, and Missy Dehn Kubitschek. “Who Cares? Women-Centered Psychology in
Sula.” David L. Middleton 61-91.
Grant, Robert. “Absence into Presence: The Thematics of Memory and ‘Missing” Subjects in
Toni Morrison’s Sula.” McKay, Critical Essays 90-103. IL
Harris, Trudier. “Sula.” Fiction and Folklore 52-84. IL
Hirsch, Marianne. “Maternal Narratives: ‘Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood.’” Reading Black,
Reading Feminist 415-30. IL
---. “Speaking with Two Voices: Morrison’s Sula.” The Mother/Daughter Plot
176-86. IL
Johnson, Barbara. “’Aesthetic’ and ‘Rapport’ in Toni Morrison’s Sula.” Conner 3-11. IL
Matus, Jill. “Sula: war and Peace traumas.” (sic) Matus 55-71.
McDowell, Deborah E. “’The Self and the Other’: Reading Toni Morrison’s Sula and the Black
Female Text.” McKay, Critical Essays 77-90.
McKee, Patricia. “Spacing and Placing Experience in Toni Morrison’s Sula.” Peterson 37-62.
Page, Philip. “Shocked into Separateness: Unresolved Oppositions in Sula.” Page 60-83.
Peach, Linden. “Sula.” Toni Morrison 39-54.
Powell, Timothy B. “Toni Morrison: The Struggle to Depict the Black Figure on the White
Page.” David L. Middleton 45-60.
Walker, Melissa. “Private Lives before the Movement: Sula.” Walker 119-28. IL
Williams, Lisa. (Virginia Woolf and Sula) Lisa Williams 75-123. IL
SONG OF SOLOMON (1977)
Abádi Nagy Zoltán. “Salamon-ének.” Mai amerikai regénykalauz 81-85.
Awkward, Michael. “’Unruly and Let Loose’: Myth, Ideology, and Gender in Song of
Solomon.” Furman, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon 67-93. IL
Bouson, J. Brooks. “’Can’t Nobody Fly with All That Shit’: The Shame-Pride Axis and Black
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Masculinity in Song of Solomon.” Bouson 75-101.
Brenner, Gerry. “Song of Solomon: Rejecting Rank’s Monomyth and Feminism.” McKay,
Critical Essays 114-25. IL Also Furman, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon 95-109. IL
Cowart, David. “Faulkner and Joyce in Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” David L. Middleton
95-108. Also: American Literature 62.1 (1990): 87-100.
Duvall, John N. “Doe Hunting and Masculinity: Song of Solomon and Go Down, Moses.”
Furman, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon 113-36. IL
Fabre, Genevieve. “Geneological Archeology of the Quest for Legacy in Toni Morrison’s Song
of Solomon.” McKay, Critical Essays 105-14. IL
Furman, Jan, ed. Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: A Casebook. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.
---. Introduction. Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: A Casebook 3-20. IL
---. “Male Consciousness: Song of Solomon.” Toni Morrison’s Fiction 34-48.
Harris, Trudier. “Song of Solomon.” Fiction and Folklore 84-115. IL
Hirsch, Marianne. “Knowing Their Names: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Smith 69-92.
Hogue, W. Lawrence. “The Retreat from Modernity: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and
N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn.” Hogue 29-74.
Imbrie, Ann E. “’What Shalimar Knew’: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon as a Pastoral
Novel.” College English 55.5 (1993): 473-90. IL
Lee, Catherine Carr. “The South in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Furman, Toni
Morrison’s Song of Solomon 43-64. IL
Krumholz, Linda. “Dead Teachers: Rituals of Manhood and Rituals of Readingn in Song of
Solomon.” Furman, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon 201-29. IL
Lester, Julius. “People Who Could Fly.” Furman, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon 21-23. IL
Lubiano, Wahneema. “The Postmodernist Rag: Political Identity and the Vernacular in Song of
Solomon.” Smith 93-116.
MacKethan, Lucinda H. “Names to Bear Witness: The Theme and Tradition of Naming in Toni
Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Furman, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon 185-97. IL
Matus, Jill. “Song of Solomon: rasising Dead fathers.” (sic) Matus 72-84.
Middleton, Joyce Irene. “From Orality to Literacy: Oral Memory in Toni Morrison’s Song of
Solomon.” Smith 19-39.
Mobley, Marilyn Sanders. “Call and Response: Voice, Community, and Dialogic Structures in
Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Smith 41-68.
O’Shaughnessy, Kathleen. “’Life life life life’: The Community as Chorus in Song of Solomon.”
McKay, Critical Essays 125-33. IL
Page, Philip. “Putting It All Together: Attempted Unification in Song of Solomon.” Page
84-107.
Peach, Linden. “Song of Solomon.” Toni Morrison 55-74.
Rigney, Barbara. “Hagar’s Mirror: Self and Identity in Morrison’s Fiction.” Peach, Toni
Morrison (New Casebooks) 52-69.
Schappell, Elissa. “The Art of Fiction.” Furman, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon 233-65. IL
Skerrett, Joseph T., Jr. “Recitation to the Griot: Storytelling and Learning in Toni Morrison’s
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Smith, Valerie. “The Quest for and Discovery of Identity in Toni Morrison’s Song of
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---, ed. New Essays on Song of Solomon. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Thomiéres, Daniel. “Milkman’s Flight: The Concept of Flight in Toni Morrison’s Song of
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Walker, Melissa. “From Desegregation to Voting Rights: Song of Solomon.” Walker 129-47. IL
Wegs, Joyce M. “Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: A Blues Song.” Furman, Toni Morrison’s
Song of Solomon 165-84
Wilentz, Gay. “Civilizations Underneath: African Heritage as Cultural Discourse in Toni
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Morrison’s Song of Solomon 137-63. IL
TAR BABY (1981)
Bouson, J. Brooks. “’Defecating Over a Whole People’: The Politics of Shame and the Failure
of Love in Tar Baby.” Bouson 103-30.
DiBattista, Maria. “Contentions in the House of Chloe: Morrison’s Tar Baby.”
Conner 92-112. IL
Furman, Jan. “Community and Cultural Identity.” Toni Morrison’s Fiction 49-66.
Harris, Trudier. “Tar Baby.” Fiction and Folklore 116-50. IL
Lepow, Lauren. “Paradise Lost and Found: Dualism and Edenic Myth in Toni Morrison’s Tar
Baby.” David L. Middleton 165-81.
Matus, Jill. “Tar Baby: a message mailed from under the sink.” (sic) Matus 85-102.
Mbalia, Doreatha Drummond. “Tar Baby: A Reflection of Morrison’s Developed Class
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Otten, Terry. “The Crime of Innocence: Tar Baby and the Fall Myth.” Peach, Toni Morrison
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Page, Philip. “Everyone Was Out of Place: Contention and Dissolution in Tar Baby.” Page
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Paquet, Sandra Pouchet. “The Ancester as Foundation in Their Eyes Were Watching God and
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Peach, Linden. “Tar Baby.” Toni Morrison 75-92.
Pereira, Malin Walther. “Be(e)ing and ‘Truth’: Tar Baby’s Signifying on Sylvia Plath’s Bee
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Traylor, Eleanor W. “The Fabulous World of Toni Morrison: Tar Baby.” McKay, Critical
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Ryan, Judylyn S. “Contested Visions/Double-Vision in Tar Baby.” Peterson 63-87.
Walker, Melissa. “In the Wake of the Movement: Tar Baby.” Walker 189-98. IL
Werner, Craig H. “The Briar Patch as Modernist Myth: Morrison, Barthes and Tar Baby As-Is.”
McKay, Critical Essays 150-67. IL
BELOVED (1987)
Andrews, William L., and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook.
New York: OUP, 1999. IL
Askeland, Lori. “Remodelling the Model Home in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Beloved.”
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Atkinson, Yvonne. “The Black English Oral Tradition in Beloved: ‘listen to the spaces.’”
Solomon 247-60.
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Ayer (Sitter), Deborah. “The Making of a Man: Dialogic Meaning in Beloved.” Solomon
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Bell, Bernard W. “Beloved: A Womanist Neo-Slave Narrative; or Multivocal Remembrances of
Things Past.” Solomon 166-76.
Bouson, J. Brooks. “’Whites Might Dirty Her All Right, but Not Her Best Thing’: The Dirtied
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Bowers, Susan. “Beloved and the New Apocalypse.” David L. Middleton 209-30.
Capuano, Peter J. “Truth in Timbre: Morrison’s Extention of Slave Narrative Song in Beloved.”
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Carden, Mary Paniccia. “Models of Memory and Romance: The Dual Endings of Toni
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Carl, Plasa. Toni Morrison, Beloved.
Christian, Barbara, Deborah McDowell, Nellie Y. McKay. “A Conversation on Toni Morrison’s
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Corey, Susan. “Toward the Limits of Mystery: The Grotesque in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.”
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Cutter, Martha J. “The Story Must Go on and on: The Fantastic, Narration, and Intertextuality in
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Elliott, Mary Jane Suero. “Postcolonial Experience in a Domestic Context: Commodified
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---. “Remembering the ‘Disremembered’: Beloved.” Toni Morrison’s Fiction 67-84.
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Harding, Wendy, and Jacky Martin. “Reading at the Cultural Interface: The Corn Symbolism of
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Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. “The Slave Mother: The Tale of the Ohio.” Andrews and
McKay 21-23. IL
Harris, Trudier. “Beloved: Woman, Thy Name Is Demon.” Andrews and McKay 127-57. IL
Also: Solomon 127-37. Also: Fiction and Folklore 151-83. IL
Heinze, Denise. “Beloved and the Tyranny of the Double.” Solomon 205-10.
Henderson, Mae G. “Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Remembering the Body as Historical Text.”
Andrews and McKay 79-106. IL
Hinson, D. Scot. “Narrative and Community Crisis in Beloved.” MELUS 26.4 (2001): 147-67.
Holloway, Karla F. C. “Beloved: A Spiritual.” Andrews and McKay 67-78. IL
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House, Elizabeth B. “Toni Morrison’s Ghost: The Beloved Who Is Not Beloved.” Solomon
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Joyner, Louisa. “Beloved.” Toni Morrison 27-84. IL
Kella, Elizabeth. “Shadows Holding Hands: Performative Community in Toni Morrison’s
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King, Lovalerie. “The Disruption of Formulaic Discourse: Writing Resistance and Truth in
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Beloved.” Solomon 272-83.
Koolish, Lynda. “’To Be Loved and Cry Shame’: A Psychological Reading of Toni Morrison’s
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Krumholz, Linda. “The Ghosts of Slavery: Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.”
Andrews and McKay 107-25. IL
Lawrence, David. “Fleshly Ghosts and Ghostly Flesh: The Word and the Body in Beloved.”
David L. Middleton 231-46.
Matus, Jill. “Beloved: the possessions of history.” (sic) Matus 103-20.
May, Samuel J. “Margaret Garner and seven others.” Andrews and McKay 25-36. IL
Moreland, Richard C. “’He Wants to Put His Story Next to Hers’: Putting Twain’s Story Next
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Ochoa, Peggy. “Morrison’s Beloved: Allegorically Othering ‘White’ Christianity.” MELUS
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Otten, Terry. “Transfiguring the Narrative: Beloved—from Melodrama to Tragedy.” Solomon
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Page, Philip. “Anything Coming Back to Life Hurts: Circularity in Beloved.” Page 133-58.
Peach, Linden. “Beloved.” Toni Morrison 93-111.
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Phelan, James. “Toward a Rhetorical Reader-Response Criticism: The Difficult, the Stubborn,
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Rigney, Barbara Hill. “’Breaking the Back of Words’: Language, Silence, and the Politics of
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Rodrigues, Eusebio L. “The Telling of Beloved.” Solomon 148-65.
Rushdy, Ashraf. H. “Daughters Signifyin(g) History: The Example of Toni Morrison’s
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Sale, Maggie. “Call and Response as Critical Method: African-American Oral Traditions and
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Solomon, Barbara H., ed. Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved. New York: Hall, 1998.
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Williams, Lisa. (Virginia Woolf and Beloved.) Lisa Williams 126-68. IL
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Wyatt, Jean. “Giving Body to the Word: The Maternal Symbolic in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.”
Solomon 211-32.
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PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION (1992)
Furman, Jan. “Literary and Social Criticism: Playing in the Dark.” Toni Morrison’s
Fiction 104-11.
Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. New York:
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JAZZ (1992)
Abádi-Nagy Zoltán. “A szépirodalmi narratíva kulturalizációja I.” Filológiai Közlöny 48.1-2
(2002): 46-56
---. “A szépirodalmi narratíva kulturalizációja II.” Filológiai Közlöny 49.1-4 (2003): 55-69.
---. “Fabula and Culture: Case Study of Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” European Journal of English
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---. “From Fabula to Story: Cultural Potential and Narrative Technique.” Universitate şi
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---. “A trópus mint kulturalizációs narrativitás.” A regény és a trópusok. Tanulmányok: a
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Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Américaines 29.1
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Atlas, Marilyn J. “Cracked Psyches and Verbal Putty: Geography and Integrity in Toni
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Bouson, J. Brooks. “’The Dirty, Get-on-Down Music’: City Pride, Shame, and Violence in
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Brown, Caroline. “Golden Gray and the Talking Book: Identity as a Site of Artful
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Construction in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” African American Review 36.4 (2002): 62942. IL
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Knadler, Stephen. “Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance: Remarking the Record
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Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. “Jazz (1992).” Kubitschek 139-61.
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113-19.
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PARADISE (1998)
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LOVE (2003)
A MERCY (2008)