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Author: Carmen Gillespie
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
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Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.572kg
ISBN: 9781611486346
ISBN 10: 1611486343
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 16 October 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgments Forty Years and More in The Clearing: Morrison Chronology, 1970–2012 Introduction: Gather at the Clearing, by Carmen Gillespie In the Beginning: Two Reviews, John Leonard’s New York Times 1970 Review of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s New York Times “Letter to the Editor” in Response to Sara Blackburn’s 1973 Review of Sula In Search of the Clearing, by Elizabeth Beaulieu Trouble in Paradise: Representing Bliss in Non-Orgiastic Language, by Katie G. Cannon “Margaret’s Lullaby” (from Margaret Garner), by Richard Danielpour “Creatively serving—the process”: An Interview with Playwright Lydia Diamond, Author of the Play The Bluest Eye American Romance, the Moral Imagination and Toni Morrison: A Theory of Literary Aesthetics, by Jan Furman Meditations on Love, by Joanne V. Gabbin And Everyone Will Answer, by Nikki Giovanni Morrison as Subject: Photographs, by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Wrestling Till Dawn: On Becoming an Intellectual In the Age of Morrison by Farah Jasmine Griffin Playing in the Wild: Toni Morrison’s Canon and the Wild Zone, by Missy Dehn Kubitschek “Looking Shakespeare in the Face”: An Interview with Toni Morrison’s Howard University Friends, Florence Ladd and Mary Wilburn Melancholy and the Unyielding Earth in The Bluest Eye, by Kathleen Kelly Marks Co(n)ven(t): A Performance Study of Toni Morrison’s Paradise, by Dustyn Martincich Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?: Food, Race, and [En]countering the Modern in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, by Susan Neal Mayberry Testimony and Transformation: An Exploration of the Intersections of the Arts of Toni Morrison and the Potential Therapeutic Uses of Her Narratives, by Lakeisha Meyer Belief and Performance: Morrison and Me, by Koritha Mitchell Praise Song for Toni Morrison, by Mendi and Keith Obadike Morrison and Obama An interview with Barack H. Obama Body Difference in Toni Morrison’s Fiction, by Linden Peach Toni Morrison, Théodore Géricault, and Incendiary Art, by Nancy J. Peterson Morrison as Muse: The Poetic Process by Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly Haiku (for Toni Morrison), by Sonia Sanchez The Making of a Novelist (Epistolary), by A . J. Verdelle Beloved Bodies, by L. Martina Young Bibliography Works by Toni Morrison (Editions Cited in This Volume) Other Sources (Cited in This Volume) Secondary Sources
Reviews
Gillespie has collected an impressively varied array of genres for this volume in the Griot Project Book Series, which looks at the aesthetics, art, history, and culture of African America and the African diaspora. More than a scholarly exploration, the collection celebrates Morrison and her wide influence on other practitioners. There are chapters on Morrison's work in relation to other arts- music, painting, dance-with links to audio tracks from Richard Danielpour's opera Margaret Garner, based on Beloved, and to the poet-musicians Mendi and Keith Obadike's lovely Praise Song for Toni Morrison, and also poems by Sonia Sanchez and a memoir by Nikki Giovanni. Gillespie includes scholarly pieces by Jan Furman about the relationship between moral knowledge and aesthetics in Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, and by Susan Mayberry, who discusses modernism, race, and food in Tar Baby--to cite just two examples of this collection's riches. A chronology and bibliography of Morrison's work are included. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. CHOICE
Gillespie has collected an impressively varied array of genres for this volume in the Griot Project Book Series, which looks at the aesthetics, art, history, and culture of African America and the African diaspora. More than a scholarly exploration, the collection celebrates Morrison and her wide influence on other practitioners. There are chapters on Morrison's work in relation to other arts- music, painting, dance-with links to audio tracks from Richard Danielpour's opera Margaret Garner, based on Beloved, and to the poet-musicians Mendi and Keith Obadike's lovely Praise Song for Toni Morrison, and also poems by Sonia Sanchez and a memoir by Nikki Giovanni. Gillespie includes scholarly pieces by Jan Furman about the relationship between moral knowledge and aesthetics in Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, and by Susan Mayberry, who discusses modernism, race, and food in Tar Baby--to cite just two examples of this collection's riches. A chronology and bibliography of Morrison's work are included. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * CHOICE * Gillespie constructs a rich critical narrative of Morrison's works. * The Journal of African American History *
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Carmen Gillespie is professor of English and creative writing at Bucknell University.
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