| Description |
vi, 258 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
African American literature and culture ; v. 12 |
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African-American literature and culture ; v. 12.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Trial by fire : the theodicy of Toni Morrison in Sula / Beverly Foulks -- Toni Morrison's Beloved : psalm and sacrament / Nancy Berkowitz Bate -- To live this life intensely and well : the rebirth of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / David Z. Wehner -- Intimate fatality : Song of Solomon and the journey home / Beth Benedrix -- The Bible as intertext in Toni Morrison's novels / Agnes Surányi -- The "female revealer" in Beloved, Jazz and Paradise : syncretic spirituality in Toni Morrison's trilogy / Sharon Jesse -- Mythopoetic syncretism in Paradise and the deconstruction of hospitality in Love / Benjamin Burr -- Jazz funerals and mourning songs : Toni Morrison's call to the ancestors in Sula / Anissa Janine Wardi -- A new world religion? Creolisation and Candomblé in Toni Morrison's Paradise / Jennifer Terry -- The master's tools : Morrison's Paradise and the problem of Christianity / Shirley A. Stave -- Ritual and "other" religions in The bluest eye / Rebecca Degler. |
| Subject |
Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bible -- In literature.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans in literature.
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Spirituality in literature.
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| Added Author |
Stave, Shirley A., 1952-
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| ISBN |
0820469351 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780820469355 paperback alkaline paper |
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