Toni Morrison's wooded and verdant clearing, a central trope in her novel Beloved, is the model for this book. The collection is a distinctive review, examination, and (re)discovery of Morrison's work and cultural impacts as defined by emerging and acclaimed artists, scholars, and public figures.
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Edited by Carmen Gillespie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Acknowledgments
Forty Years and More in The Clearing: Morrison Chronology, 1970-2012
Introduction: Gather at the Clearing, by Carmen Gillespie
In the Beginning: Two Reviews, John Leonard's New York Times 1970 Review of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's New York Times "Letter to the Editor" in Response to Sara Blackburn's 1973 Review of Sula
In Search of the Clearing, by Elizabeth Beaulieu
Trouble in Paradise: Representing Bliss in Non-Orgiastic Language, by Katie G. Cannon
"Margaret's Lullaby" (from Margaret Garner), by Richard Danielpour
"Creatively serving-the process": An Interview with Playwright Lydia Diamond, Author of the Play The Bluest Eye
American Romance, the Moral Imagination and Toni Morrison: A Theory of Literary Aesthetics, by Jan Furman
Meditations on Love, by Joanne V. Gabbin
And Everyone Will Answer, by Nikki Giovanni
Morrison as Subject: Photographs, by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Wrestling Till Dawn: On Becoming an Intellectual In the Age of Morrison by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Playing in the Wild: Toni Morrison's Canon and the Wild Zone, by Missy Dehn Kubitschek
"Looking Shakespeare in the Face": An Interview with Toni Morrison's Howard University Friends, Florence Ladd and Mary Wilburn
Melancholy and the Unyielding Earth in The Bluest Eye, by Kathleen Kelly Marks
Co(n)ven(t): A Performance Study of Toni Morrison's Paradise, by Dustyn Martincich
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?: Food, Race, and [En]countering the Modern in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, by Susan Neal Mayberry
Testimony and Transformation: An Exploration of the Intersections of the Arts of Toni Morrison and the Potential Therapeutic Uses of Her Narratives, by Lakeisha Meyer
Belief and Performance: Morrison and Me, by Koritha Mitchell
Praise Song for Toni Morrison, by Mendi and Keith Obadike
Morrison and Obama An interview with Barack H. Obama
Body Difference in Toni Morrison's Fiction, by Linden Peach
Toni Morrison, Théodore Géricault, and Incendiary Art, by Nancy J. Peterson
Morrison as Muse: The Poetic Process by Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly
Haiku (for Toni Morrison), by Sonia Sanchez
The Making of a Novelist (Epistolary), by A . J. Verdelle
Beloved Bodies, by L. Martina Young
Bibliography
Works by Toni Morrison (Editions Cited in This Volume)
Other Sources (Cited in This Volume)
Secondary Sources
Klappentext
Toni Morrison's wooded and verdant clearing, a central trope in her novel Beloved, is the model for this book. The collection is a distinctive review, examination, and (re)discovery of Morrison's work and cultural impacts as defined by emerging and acclaimed artists, scholars, and public figures.
