Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison
Editor(s): Nellie Y. McKay, Kathryn Earle
Pages: xi & 179 pp.
Published: 1997
ISBN: 9780873527422
"This is a solid volume with many rich ideas for those persons who teach and read the work of Toni Morrison. The essays are well organized, by theme rather than by novel. I enjoyed the book and learned from it."
Kathryn Lee Seidel, author of The Southern Belle in the American Novel
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
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 sort out the best materials and to meet the many challenges that Morrison's writings pose.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison
PART 1: MATERIALS
Nellie Y. McKay
Introduction
The Novels
- Other Works
- Articles and Essays
- Playing in the Dark
- Interviews and Nobel Prize Lecture
- The Black Book
Further Readings for Students
- The Instructor's Library
- Reference Works
- Book-Length Critical Studies
- Essay Collections
- Uncollected Critical Essays
- Background Readings
Audiovisual Materials
PART 2: APPROACHES
"Out There, in the World": Race and Identity in the Classroom
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 the Bitterness of History: Teaching Beloved
Carolyn C. Denard
Marginality and Community in Beloved
Sharon P. Holland and Michael Awkward
"The Thing out of Which I Come": Morrison Contextualized
Authority, Literacy, and Modernism in The Bluest Eye
Thomas H. Fick and Eva Gold
Song of Solomon: Modernism in the Afro-American Studies Classroom
Sandra Adell
Flying Home: Folklore, Intertextuality, 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
Colors and Sounds: Language, Style, and Technique
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
"Holes and Spaces": Interpretive Strategies
"Laundering the Head of Whitewash": Mimicry and Resistance in The Bluest Eye
Gurleen Grewal
An 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 and Arnold Rampersad
Morrison's Jazz: "A Knowing So Deep"
Judylyn S. Ryan
Works Cited
Index of Morrison's Novels
Index of Names
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