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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
The Buckeye
Part I. “This is where I belong”
“Dangerously Free”: Morrison’s Unspeakable Territory
Modernity and the Homeless: Toni Morrison and the Fictions of Modernism
Resurrecting the Dead Girl: Modernism and the Problem of History in Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise
To Make a Humanist Black: Toni Wofford’s Howard Years
Part II. “Regrets, excuses, righteousness, false memory and future plans mixed together or stood like soldiers in line”
Trying to Get Home: Place and Memory in Toni Morrison’s Fiction
The Pursuit of Memory
Personal and Cultural Memory in A Mercy
Love: An Elegy for the African American Community, or The Unintended Consequences of Desegregation/Integration
Part III. “Her garden was not Eden; it was so much more than that”
From Eden to Paradise: A Pilgrimage through Toni Morrison’s Trilogy
“And the Greatest of These”: Toni Morrison, the Bible, Love
Palimpsest: Reading John Winthrop through the Morrison Trilogy
Magically Flying with Toni Morrison: Mexico, Gabriel García Márquez, Song of Solomon, and Sula
Part IV. “Now it seemed both fresh and ancient, safe and demanding”
Property and American Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Aeschylus, Euripides, and Toni Morrison: Miasma, Revenge, and Atonement
Toni Morrison’s Performance of the Word in Song of Solomon: The Folkloric, the Fantastic, and “Some Old Folk’s Lie”
“A Kind of Restoration”: Psychogeographies of Healing in Toni Morrison’s Home
Part V. “You can keep on writing but I think you ought to know what’s true”
Aesthetic Activity
“‘There is the Power,’ he thought, ‘right there’”: Dramatizing Entropy in Tar Baby and Paradise
Telling Stories: Evolving Narrative Identity in Toni Morrison’s Home
“Newness trembles me”? Representations of White Masculinity in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
The Sound of Change: A Musical Transit through the Wounded Modernity of Desdemona
Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo
Contributors
Index
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