ENGL 470: Critical Readings

Michael Awkward, “’The Evil of Fulfillment’: Scapegoating and Narration in The Bluest Eye”

Jill Matus, "Shame and Anger in The Bluest Eye"

J. Brooks Bouson, “’The devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause’: Chronic Shame, Traumatic Abuse, and Racial Self-Loathing in The Bluest Eye”

Yvonne Atkinson, “Language that Bears Witness: The Black English Oral Tradition in the Works of Toni Morrison”

Jill Matus, “Sula: War and Peace Traumas”

Gay Wilentz, “An African-Based Reading of Sula”

Barbara Christian, “The Contemporary Fables of Toni Morrison”

Morrison, “Rootedness, The Ancestor as Foundation”

Keith E. Byerman, “Songs of the Ancestors: Family in Song of Solomon”

Willis, Susan, "Eruptions of Funk"

Smith, Valerie, “Continuities of Community in The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon”

Marilyn Sanders Mobley, “Narrative Dilemma: Jadine as Cultural Orphan in Tar Baby”

Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory”

Marilyn Sanders Mobley, “A Different Remembering: Memory, History, and Meaning in Beloved”

Werner, Craig, ”Jazz : Morrison and the Music of Tradition”

Matus, Jill, ”‘A sweettooth for pain’ : History, Trauma and Replay in Jazz ”

Ron David, “Paradise”

Jill Matus, “Postscript on Paradise”