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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison

By Kelly L. Reames; Linda Wagner-Martin (editors)

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2022
ISBN
9781350239920, 9781350239951, 9781350239937
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
43 MB (44996169 bytes)
Series
Bloomsbury Handbooks
Pages
\435
Time added
2023-05-22 07:53:12

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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first major collection of critical essays to appear since Morrison’s death in mid-2019, this book contains peviously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions.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 as scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American letters, American modernism, and women’s writing. The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison’s writing within today’s currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison’s “trilogy” of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise alongside Dos Passos’ USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of “influence” that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison, including an essay on Morrison as writer of children’s books and as speaker for children’s education. In addition, a “Teaching Morrison” section is designed to help teachers and critics who teach Morrison in undergraduate classes. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison will be wide-ranging, provocative, and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one of the greatest American novelists. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Illustrations Foreword: Toni Morrison: A Friend of my Mind Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE Morrison’s Novels CHAPRER ONE The Sight and Sound of Intersectionality in The Bluest Eye (corinne bancroft) CHAPTER TWO Re-Visiting the Unspeakable: Can Soaphead Church Be Redeemed? (TRUDIER HARRIS) CHAPTER THREE Do You Believe in Magic? #BlackGirlMagic in The Bluest Eye and Beloved (JAMES A. CRANK) CHAPTER FOUR “Is? My Baby? Burning?”: Segregation, Soldiers, and Civil Rights in Toni Morrison’s Sula (THOMAS FAHY) CHAPTER FIVE Toni Morrison’s Female Epistemology: Post-Nationalism, Diaspora, and Postcolonial Futures in Tar Baby, Mouth Fu CHAPTER SIX “How Can I Say Things that Are Pictures?”: Foregrounding in Beloved (JENNIFER LARSON) CHAPTER SEVEN Rootlessness: Afro-Pessimism as Foundation in Paradise (KEITH CLARK) CHAPTER EIGHT Love: Toni Morrison’s African American Gothic (JAMEELA F. DALLIS) CHAPTER NINE “A Home for the Heart”: Rootlessness, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison’s Home (LESLIE ELAINE FROST) CHAPTER TEN The Ancestor, Passing, and Imagination in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child (2015) (JANINE BRADBURY) CHAPTER ELEVEN Arcs of Transcendence: The Religious Imagination of Toni Morrison ( GURLEEN GREWAL) PART TWO Morrison and the Contemporary World CHAPTER TWELVE “Unforgetting”: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (KRISTINA K. GROOVER CHAPTER THIRTEEN Blues Lives Matter: Reading Jazz in the Era of George Floyd (ANDREW SCHEIBER) CHAPTER FOURTEEN Margaret Garner in History, Opera, and as Inspiration for Beloved (KRISTINE YOHE) CHAPTER FIFTEEN Faulkner after Morrison (DAVID H. KRAUSE) CHAPTER SIXTEEN Prospects for the Public Uses of “Toni Morrison” (KIRK CURNUTT) CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Going to Ground in Home: Morrison’s Mid-Century Political Modernism (THADIOUS M. DAVIS) CHAPTER EIGHTEEN “Only White Folks Got the Freedom to Hate Home”: Strategic Empathy and Expanded Intersectionality since Morris PART THREE Morrison Teaching, Teaching Morrison CHAPTER NINETEEN Toni Morrison and the Politics of Literary Generosity (MICHAEL NOWLIN) CHAPTER TWENTY Soldiers, Identity, and Trauma: Teaching Home in a War Literature Course (JENNIFER HAYTOCK) CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Cotton Mather’s Witches and Toni Morrison’s Paradise (JANIE HINDS) CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “What Are You without Racism?”: Toni Morrison on Perfectionism and White Supremacy (CHRISTOPHER S. LEWIS CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Teaching Toni Morrison’s Sula in a “Post-Racial” Moment (MARC K. DUDLEY) CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR “Understand[ing] All Too Well What Is Meant”: Teaching Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” (CATHERINE SELTZER CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Toni Morrison’s Home: One Scene, Four Takes (TRUDIER HARRIS) Bibliography Contributors Index

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