Title:
Approaches to teaching the novels of Toni Morrison
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edited by Nellie Y. McKay and Kathryn Earle.
Publication Information:
New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1997.
Physical Description:
xi, 179 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780873527415
9780873527422
Abstract:
Teachers started assigning the novels of Toni Morrison long before she won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature and before there was a significant body of secondary literature on the author. Now her works are the subject of countless studies and listed in the syllabi of an ever-increasing number of courses in schools and universities. The editors of this volume help the teacher to sort out the best materials and to meet the many challenges that Morrison's writings pose.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174) and indexes.
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Contents:
Tracing and erasing : race and pedagogy in The Bluest Eye / Rafael Pérez-Torres -- Teaching controversy : The bluest eye in the multicultural classroom / Kathryn Earle -- Raked with wonder : a white instructor teaches Sula / Toni A.H. McNaron -- Beyond bitterness of history : teaching Beloved / Carolyn C. Denard -- Marginality and community in Beloved / Sharon P. Holland, Michael Awkward -- Authority, literacy, and modernism in The bluest eye / Thomas H. Fick, Eva Gold -- Song of Solomon : modernism in the Afro-American studies classroom / Sandra Adell -- Flying home : folklore, intertexuality, and Song of Solomon / James C. Hall -- Tar Baby : philosophizing blackness / Madelyn Jablon -- Using history as artifact to situate Beloved's unknown woman : Margaret Garner / Angelita Reyes -- Jazz : Morrison and the music of tradition / Craig Werner -- Morrison on Morrison : using interviews to teach Morrison / Terry Otten -- Sula : imagery, figurative language, and symbols / Elizabeth B. House -- Reading in the dark ; knowledge and vision in Song of Solomon / Linda J. Krumholz -- Jazz : from music to literature / Anthony J. Berret -- Laundering the head of whitewash : mimicry and resistance in The bluest eye / Gurleen Grewal -- African-based reading of Sula / Gay Wilentz -- Songs of the ancestors : family in Song of Solomon / Keith E. Byerman -- Telling stories : a cultural studies approach to Tar Baby / Marilyn Sanders Mobley -- Teaching Tar Baby / Ann Jurecic, Arnold Rampersad -- Morrison's Jazz : a knowing so deep / Judylyn S. Ryan.