Tag Archives: Toni Morrison

Florida School Pulls Paradise Lost

A Florida County has pulled “Paradise Lost” from the shelves. It’s true that the work has “sexual content.”

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On Defending Books against Bullies

On book banning and how to respond to the banners.

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Bluest Eye and Ohio’s Abortion Politics

Morison’s “Bluest Eye” functions as an implicit rebuke of the Ohio legislature’s attack on abortion.

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Florida’s Latest Author Ban: The Bard

Some Florida schools are now censoring Shakespeare, taking out the racy parts and offering only excerpts.

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Morrison on the Death of Emmett Till

In “Song of Solomon,” Morrison has the men in the community grapple with what the death of Emmett Till means.

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We Need Disturbing Lit If We Are to Grow

If we want literature to improve our lives, often we must read–and teach–works that unsettle.

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Pretending that Slavery Wasn’t a Big Deal

Unlike Faulkner, the Southern Agrarians claimed that African Americans weren’t an integral part of Southern culture.

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Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Trump’s Charges

Reading Sanctuary while awaiting a Trump indictment is a good counterweight to facile optimism. In Faulkner’s world, the courts can’t save us.

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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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