Toni Morrison's Home : one scene, four takes / Trudier Harris. 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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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