The Bloomsbury handbook to Toni Morrison

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The Bloomsbury handbook to Toni Morrison

edited by Kelly L. Reames and Linda Wagner-Martin

(Bloomsbury handbooks)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-403) and index

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Description

The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions.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 is wide-ranging, provocative, and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one of the greatest American novelists.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Contributors Foreword "Toni Morrison: A Friend of My Mind," Deborah E. McDowell Acknowledgments Introduction Kelly L. Reames and Linda Wagner-Martin Part One: Morrison's Novels 1. "The Sight and Sound of Intersectionality in The Bluest Eye" Corinne Bancroft 2. "Re-Visiting the Unspeakable: Can Soaphead Church Be Redeemed?" Trudier Harris 3. "Do You Believe in Magic? #BlackGirlMagic in The Bluest Eye" James A. Crank 4. "'Is? My Baby? Burning?': Segregation, Soldiers, and Civil Rights in Toni Morrison's Sula" Thomas Fahy 5. "Toni Morrison's Female Epistemology: Post-nationalism, Diaspora, and Postcolonial Futures in Tar Baby, Mouth Full of Blood, and Paradise" Justine Baillie 6. "'How Can I Say Things That Are Pictures?' Foregrounding in Beloved" Jennifer Larson 7. "Rootlessness: Afro-Pessimism as Foundation in Paradise" Keith Clark 8. "Love: Toni Morrison's African American Gothic" Jameela F. Dallis 9. "'A Home for the Heart': Rootlessness, Richard Wright, and Morrison's Home," Leslie Elaine Frost 10. "The Ancestor, Passing, and Imagination in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child" Janine Bradbury 11. "Arcs of Transcendence: The Religious Imagination of Toni Morrison" Gurleen Grewal Part Two: Morrison and the Contemporary World 12. "'Unforgetting': Toni Morrison's Beloved and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice" Kristina K. Groover 13. "Blues Lives Matter: Reading Jazz in the Era of George Floyd" Andrew Scheiber 14. "Margaret Garner in History, Opera, and as Inspiration for Beloved" Kristine Yohe 15. "Faulkner after Morrison" David H. Krause 16. "Prospects for the Public Uses of 'Toni Morrison'" Kirk Curnutt 17. "Going to Ground in Home: Morrison's Mid-Century Political Modernism" Thadious M. Davis 18. "'Only white folks got the freedom to hate home': Strategic Empathy and Expanded Intersectionality since Morrison's Home" Marijana Mikic and Derek C. Maus Part Three: Morrison Teaching, Teaching Morrison 19. "Toni Morrison and the Politics of Literary Generosity" Michael Nowlin 20. "Soldiers, Identity, and Trauma: Teaching Home in a War Literature Course" Jennifer Haytock 21. "Cotton Mather's Witches and Toni Morrison's Paradise" Janie Hinds 22. "'What are you without racism?': Toni Morrison on Perfectionism and White Supremacy" Christopher S. Lewis 23. "Teaching Morrison's Sula in the Post-Racial Moment" Marc Dudley 24. "'Understanding All Too Well What is Meant': Teaching Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif'" Catherine Seltzer 25. "Toni Morrison's Home: One Scene, Four Takes" Trudier Harris Bibliography Index Illustrations 12.1 National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama, 2020 Photo: Kristina K. Groover 12.2 National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama, 2020 Photo: Kristina K. Groover

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