Tag Archives: Beloved

On Defending Books against Bullies

On book banning and how to respond to the banners.

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Lit that Features the N-Word: What to Do

Now to teach White literature that employs the n-word? Balance with Black literature.

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Book Bans Leave Children Defenseless

Parents seek to protect their children through book bans. Instead, they make them more vulnerable to a changing world.

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Beloved’s War against White Supremacy

One reason the far right may hate Morrison’s “Beloved” is because a Black woman resists attempts to control her fertility.

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First They Came for Toni Morrison, Then…

In the right attacks Toni Morrison novels, does this mean that Homer, Dostoevsky, Milton, and Sophocles are next?

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“Beloved” Under Attack Once Again

An attack on Toni Morrison is concluding the Virginia governor’s race. Once again the GOP is targeting people of color.

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Toni Morrison’s Black Gothic

If the Southern Gothic grows out of white denial about white terrorism, what are we to make of black gothic? Morrison’s “Beloved” offers some answers.

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Trump’s Wall, Symbolic or Literal?

Monday Literature majors will find their training useful in understanding why Donald Trump has chosen to shut down the government. It has to do with the difference between the symbolic and the literal. A literal wall makes very little sense, with the $5.5 billion dollars that Trump is demanding from American taxpayers (not from Mexico) […]

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Magical Realism’s Special Powers

Magical realism defined and its significance discussed.

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