Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index.
Contents
Introduction: aesthetics and the African American novel -- "Aesthetic" and "rapport" in Toni Morrison's Sula / Barbara Johnson -- Language that bears witness: the Black English oral tradition in the works of Toni Morrison / Yvonne Atkinson -- Towards the limits of mystery: the grotesque in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Susan Corey -- From the sublime to the beautiful: the aesthetic progression of Toni Morrison / Marc C. Conner - Toni Morrison's beauty formula / Katherine Stern -- Contentions in the House of Chloe: Morrison's Tar baby / Maria DiBattisa -- Sensations of loss / Michael Wood -- Meditations on a bird in the hand: ethics and aesthetics in a parable by Toni Morrison / Cheryl Lester.