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xv, 308 p. ; 25 cm. |
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Critical essays on American literature
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Reviews. Haunted by their nightmares / Margaret Atwood -- Gravestone of memories / Walter Clemons -- Ghosts of "sixty million and more" / Walter Clemons -- Death duties : Toni Morrison looks back in sorrow / Ann Snitow -- Toni Morrison's Beloved country : the writer and her haunting tale of slavery / Elizabeth Kastor -- Pleasure of enchantment / Rosellen Brown -- Aunt Medea / Stanley Crouch -- House divided / Judith Thurman -- Ghost story / Thomas R. Edwards -- Ties that bind / Marsha Jean Darling -- |
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Essays. 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- |
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Original essays. 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 -- Disruption of formulaic discourse : writing resistance and truth in Beloved / Lovalerie King -- Transfiguring the narrative : Beloved-- from melodrama to tragedy / Terry Otten. |
| Subject |
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
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Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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African American women in literature.
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Infanticide in literature.
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Slavery in literature.
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Ohio -- In literature.
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| Added Author |
Solomon, Barbara H.
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| ISBN |
0783800495 (alk. paper) |
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