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The fiction of Toni Morrison : reading and writing on race, culture, and identity

Title
The fiction of Toni Morrison : reading and writing on race, culture, and identity / edited by Jami L. Carlacio.
Publication
Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Carlacio, Jami L., 1964-
  • National Council of Teachers of English.
Description
xxv, 279 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation
  • Morrison, Toni > Study and teaching
  • African Americans in literature
  • Racism in literature
  • Passing (Identity) in literature
  • Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  • Literature and society > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-265) and index.
Contents
Introduction : "shareable imaginative worlds" / Jami L. Carlacio -- Teaching The bluest eye. The impact of white ideals of beauty on black female identity / Jane E. Rose -- At the intersection : race, culture, identity, and aesthetics in The bluest eye / Jane Missner Barstow -- Humanizing the horrific in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Stephanie Li -- Teaching Sula. Writing beyond the text : an epistolary exchange from Sula / Ann E. Wallace -- Sula : a novel of intimacy and identity / Tim Burns -- Teaching Song of Solomon. "Gimme hate, Lord!" : facets of love in Song of Solomon / Marc Schuster -- The meaning of selfhood in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Brenda Boudreau -- Teaching Song of Solomon : exploring the LIST paradigm / Durthy A. Washington -- Teaching Tar baby. Postcolonial embodiment in Toni Morrison's Tar baby / Alice A. Deck -- Tar is art : blackness and the power of fiction in Tar baby / Linda Krumholz -- P/plantation politics in Toni Morrison's Tar baby / Natalie King-Pedroso -- Teaching race and whiteness using "Recitatif". Disrupting racial discourse : teaching "Recitatif" / Robert J. Patterson -- Teaching Beloved. Teaching Beloved : the power of the interrogative / Paul Masao Croon -- Re-membering Beloved / Lisa K. Perdigao -- Difficulty and textuality : history/storytelling, memory, and identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Cara Ogburn -- Teaching Jazz. Listening in on Toni Morrison's Jazz / Tsitsi Ella Jaji -- Teaching Jazz to non-English majors / Grace McEntee -- Teaching Paradise. History, narrative, and racial identity in Paradise / Jami L. Carlacio -- Teaching Paradise : race, justice, violence, and the American West / Michael K. Johnson -- Teaching Love. Community, culture, and history : reading Love with love / Kristine Yohe -- Hatred, war, and sex : the secrets of Toni Morrison's Love / Stephanie Li -- "What's love got to do with it?" : betrayal and partiarchy in Love / Jami L. Carlacio -- Appendix 1 : sample student essays. fair, redbone, spook [...] : Black Beauty and The bluest eye / Janice Ford -- The quest for self-identity in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Melanie L. Hanson -- Valerian and the postman : the symbol of mail as protection, subversion, and corruption in Tar baby / Erin D. Fox -- Beloved : representations of black death and social death / Lynette S. Gray -- "Harlem nocturne" and Jazz : a comparative analysis / Adam Steinberg -- Diversity : the embodiment of Paradise / Jiang Tian -- Appendix 2 : suggested further reading.
Call Number
Sc E 10-815
ISBN
  • 9780814116791 (pbk.)
  • 0814116795 (pbk.)
LCCN
2007015272
OCLC
123119853
Title
The fiction of Toni Morrison : reading and writing on race, culture, and identity / edited by Jami L. Carlacio.
Imprint
Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-265) and index.
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Added Author
Carlacio, Jami L., 1964-
National Council of Teachers of English.
Research Call Number
Sc E 10-815
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