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Summer Workshop 2005 - Sourcebook of Readings

Introduction

Morrison, Toni. “The Site of Memory.” Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. William Zinsser, Ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 103-124.

I. Words on/by Toni Morrison

Morrison, Toni. “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature.” Michigan Quarterly Review. Winter 1989. 1-34. Pages 1-18

Morrison, Toni. Nobel Lecture, 1993. pg. 19-22

Morrison, Toni. “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation.” Black Women Writers (1950-1980). Mare Evans, Ed. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1984. 339-345. pg. 23-26

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II. General Studies

Mbalia, Doreatha D. “A Sampling of the ‘Bits and Pieces’ of Toni Morrison’s Life Experiences in Her Works: In Her Own Words.” Toni Morrison Developing Class Consciousness. Selinsgrove, Susquehanna University Press, 2004. 187-211. pg. 27-39

Otten, Terry. “Morrison on Morrison: Using Interviews to Teach Morrison.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America,1997. 93-98. pg. 40-43

Peterson, Nancy J. “Introduction: Canonizing Toni Morrison.” Modern Fiction Studies. 39. no. 3-4 (winter 1993). 461-479. pg. 44-53

Young, John. “Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and Postmodern Popular Audiences.” African American Review. 35. no. 2. (2001). 181-204. pg. 54-75

Beavers, Herman. “The Politics of Space: Southerness and Manhood in the Fictions of Toni Morrison.” Studies in the Literary Imagination. 31, no. 2 (1998). Georgia State University. 61 -77. pg. 76-84

McKenzie, Marilyn Mobley. “Space for Readers: The Novels of Toni Morrison.” The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel. Maryemma Graham, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 221-232. pg. 85-91

Wallis, Susan. “Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison.” Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience. Madison: Wisconsin UP, 1987. 83-109. pg. 92-105

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III. Teaching

Flinders, David J. and Stephen J. Thorton, eds. The Curriculum Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Greene, Maxine. “Curriculum and Consciousness.” 137-149. pg. 107-119

Freire, Paulo. “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” 150-158. pg. 120-128

Ben-Peretz, Miriam, and F.M. Connelly. “Teachers, Research, and Curriculum Development.” 178-187. pg. 129-138

Jennings, John F. “School Reform Based on What is Taught and Learned.” 266-273. pg. 139-146

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IV. Folklore

Harris, Trudier. “Literary History and Literary Folklore.” Fiction and Folklore. Knoxville: University Press of Tennessee, 1991. 1-14. pg. 147-154

“The People Could Fly.” The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. Virginia Hamilton. New York: Knopf, 1985. 166-173. pg. 155-162

“All God’s Chillen Had Wings.” The Book of Negro Folklore. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, Eds. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1958. 62-65. pg. 163-164

“Gang Gang Sara.” Folklore and Legends of Trinidad and Tabago. arr. Gerard Besson. Port-of-Spain: Paria Publishing, 1989. 34. pg. 165

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V. The Bluest Eye

Peach, Linden. “The Bluest Eye.” Modern Critical Interpretations: Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’. Harold Bloom, Ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. 169-182. pg. 167-174

Earle, Kathryn. “Teaching Controversy: The Bluest Eye in the Multicultural Classroom.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 27-33. pg. 175-178

Perez-Torres, Rafael. “Tracing and Erasing: Race and Pedagogy in The Bluest Eye.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 21-26. pg. 179-182

Furman, Jan. “Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood: The Bluest Eye and Sula.” Modern Critical Interpretations: Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’. Harold Bloom, Ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. 183-201. pg. 183-192

Gillan, Jennifer. “Focusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, the Maginot Line and The Bluest Eye.” African American Review. 36. no.2. (2002). 283-298. pg. 193-207

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VI. Sula

Carmean, Karen. “Sula.” Modern Critical Interpretations: Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula.’ Harold Bloom, Ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. 149-161. pg. 209-215

Page, Philip. “Shocked into Separateness: Unresolved Oppositions in Sula.” Modern Critical Interpretations: Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula.’ Harold Bloom, Ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. 183-201. pg. 216-225

McNaron, Toni A. “‘Raked with Wonder’”: A White Instructor Teaches Sula.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 34-39. pg. 226-228

House, Elizabeth B. “Sula:Imagery, Figurative Language, and Symbols.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 99-105. pg. 229-232

Christian, Barbara. “The Contemporary Fables of Toni Morrison.” Modern Critical Interpretations: Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula.’ Harold Bloom, Ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. 25-49. pg. 233-245

Jones, Carolyn M. “Sula and Beloved: Images of Cain in the Novels of Toni Morrison.” Modern Critical Interpretations: Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula.’ Harold Bloom, Ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. 133-147. pg. 246-253

Demetrakopoulos, Stephanie A. “Sula and the Primacy of Woman-to-Woman Bonds.” Modern Critical Interpretations: Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula.’ Harold Bloom, Ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. 77-91. pg. 254-261

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VII. Tar Baby

Jurecic, Ann and Arnold Rampersad. “Teaching Tar Baby.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997.147-153. pg. 263-266

Lepow, Lauren. “Paradise Lost and Found: Dualism and Edenic Myth in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.” Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Contemporary Criticism. David L. Middleton, Ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. 165-181. pg. 267-276

Rigney, Barbara. “Hagar’s Mirror: Self and Identity in Morrison’s Fiction.” The Voices of Toni Morrison. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1991. 52-69. pg. 277-285

Traylor, Eleanor W. “The Fabulous World of Toni Morrison: Tar Baby.” Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Nellie McKay, Ed. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. 135-150. pg. 286-301

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VIII. Song of Solomon

Krumholz, Linda. “Dead Teachers: Rituals of Manhood and Rituals of Reading in Song of Solomon.” Modern Fiction Studies. 39. no.3-4. (fall/winter 1993). 551-574. pg. 303-314

Byerman, Keith E. “Songs of the Ancestors: Family in Song of Solomon.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 135-140. pg. 315-318

Krumholz, Linda J. “Reading in the Dark: Knowledge and Vision in Song of Solomon.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 106-112. pg. 319-322

Hall, James. “Flying Home: Folklore, Intertextuality, and Song of Solomon.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 68-72. pg. 323-325

Higgins, Therese. “Ancient Ancestral Folklore in Song of Solomon.” Religiosity, Cosmology, and Folklore: The African Influence in the Novels of Toni Morrison. New York: Routledge, 2001. 5-28. pg. 326-338

Wilentz, Gay. “Civilizations Underneath: African Heritage as Cultural Discourse in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Contemporary Criticism. David L. Middleton, Ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. 109-133. pg. 339-350

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IX. Beloved

Denard, Carolyn. “Beyond the Bitterness of History: Teaching Beloved. Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 40-47. pg. 351-354

Reyes, Angelita. “Using History as Artifact to Situate Beloved’s Unknown Woman: Margaret Garner.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 77-85. pg. 355-359

Harris, Trudier. “Beloved.” Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. 151-183. pg. 360-376

Henderson, Mae G. “Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text.” Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text. Hortense J. Spillers, Ed. New York: Routledge, 1991. 62-86. pg. 377-389

Mitchell, Angelyn. “The Metaphysics of Black Female Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2002. 86-107. pg. 390-400

Phelan, James. “Toward a Rhetorical Reader-Response Criticism: The Difficult, the Stubborn, and the Ending of Beloved.” Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Nancy J. Peterson, Ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. 225-244. pg. 401-411

Fuston-White, Jeanna. “ ‘From the Seen to the Told’ : The Construction of Subjectivity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” African American Review. 36. no.3. (2002). 461-473. pg. 412-424

Mobley, Marilyn Sanders. “A Different Remembering: Memory, History and Meaning in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Modern Critical Interpretations: Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’. Harold Bloom, Ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1998. 17-25. pg. 425-429

Krumholz, Linda. “The Ghosts of Slavery: Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” African American Review. 26. no. 3. (fall 1992). 79-95. pg. 430-438

Lawrence, David. “Fleshly Ghosts and Ghostly Flesh: The Word and the Body in Beloved.” Modern Critical Interpretations: Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’. Harold Bloom, Ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1998. 45-56. pg. 439-445

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X. Jazz

Rodrigues, Eusebio L. “Experiencing Jazz.” New Casebooks: Toni Morrison. Linden Peach, Ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 154-169. pg. 447-454

Lesionne, Veronique. “Answer Jazz’s Call: Experiencing Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” Melus. 22, no. 3 (fall 1997) 150-64. pg. 455-462

Nowlin, Michael. “Toni Morrison’s Jazz and the Racial Dreams of the American Writer.” American Literature. 71, no. 1 (March 1999): 151-74. pg. 463-475

Werner, Craig. “Jazz: Morrison and the Music of Tradition.”. Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Kathryn Earle and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 86-92. pg. 476-479

Mbalia, Doreatha, D. “Women Who Run with Wild: The Need for Sisterhoods in Jazz.” Toni Morrison Developing Class Consciousness. Selinsgrove, Susquehanna UP, 2004. 104-124. pg. 480-490

Mitchell, Angelyn. “ ‘S’th, I know that woman’: History, Gender and the South in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” Studies in the Literary Imagination. 31, no. 2, 1998. Georgia State University. 49-60. pg. 491-497

Barnes, Deborah H. “Movin’ on up: The Madness of Migration in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Contemporary Criticism. David L. Middleton, Ed. New York: Garland Publisher, 1997. 283-294. pg. 498-504

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XI. Paradise

Krumholz, Linda J. “Reading and Insight in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” African American Review. 36, no.1, (spring 2002): 21-34. pg. 505-518

Cornier, Michael Magali. “Re-Imagining Agency: Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” African American Review. 30, no ? (winter 2002): 643-61. pg. 519-537

Mbalia, Doreatha, D. “Paradise: A Warning Not to ‘Africanize’ Exploitation.” Toni Morrison Developing Class Consciousness. Selinsgrove, Susquehanna UP, 2004. 125-164. pg. 538-558

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XII Love

Miller, Laura. “The Last Resort.” The New York Times. November 2, 2003. pg. 560-562

Mbalia, Doreatha Drummond. “Afterword: Toni Morrison’s Love.” Toni Morrison’s Developing Class Consciousness. Selinsgrove : Susquehanna UP, 2004. 212-215. pg. 563-564

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