Critical essays on Toni Morrison's Beloved / edited by Barbara H. Solomon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Soloman, Barbara H.

Series:

Critical essays on American literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019. Beloved.

Morrison, Toni.

Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, American.

African American women in literature.

Infanticide in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Ohio--In literature.

Ohio.

Physical Description:

xv, 308 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1998]

Contents:

Reviews. Haunted by their nightmares / Margaret Atwood

A gravestone of memories ; The ghosts of "sixty million and more" / Walter Clemons

Death duties : Toni Morrison looks in sorrow / Ann Snitow

Toni Morrison's Beloved country : the writer and her haunting tale of slavery / Elizabeth Kastor

The pleasure of enchantment / Rosellen Brown

Aunt Medea / Stanley Crouch

A house divided / Judith Thurman

Ghost story / Thomas R. Edwards

Ties that bind / Marsha Jean Darling

Essays. The opening sentences of Beloved / Toni Morrison

Nameless ghosts : possession and dispossession in Beloved / Deborah Horvitz

Temporal defamiliarization in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Brian Finney

Toni Morrison's ghost : the beloved who is not beloved / Elizabeth B. House

Beloved : "woman, thy name is demon" / Trudier Harris

"Breaking the back of words" : language, silence, and the politics of identity in Beloved / Barbara Hill Rigney

The telling of Beloved / Eusebio L. Rodrigues

Beloved : a womanist neo-slave narrative ; or, multivocal remembrances of things past / Bernard W. Bell

Call and response as critical method : African-American oral traditions and Beloved / Maggie Sale

The making of a man : dialogic meaning in Beloved / Deborah Ayer (Sitter)

Beloved and the tyranny of the double / Denise Heinze

Giving body to the word : the maternal symbolic in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Jean Wyatt

Reading at the cultural interface : the corn symbolism of Beloved / Wendy Harding and Jacky Martin

Original essays. The Black English oral tradition in Beloved : "listen to the spaces" / Yvonne Atkinson

Sethe's re-memories : the covert return of what is best forgotten / Jan Furman

The disruption of formulaic discourse : writing resistance and truth in Beloved / Lovalerie King

Transfiguring the narrative : Beloved

from melodrama to tragedy / Terry Otten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0783800495

OCLC:

39235776