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Tag Archives: Beloved
Lit that Features the N-Word: What to Do
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Absalom Absalom!, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, n-word, racism, Song of Solomon, To Kill a Mockingbird, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner Comments closed
Book Bans Leave Children Defenseless
Parents seek to protect their children through book bans. Instead, they make them more vulnerable to a changing world.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Arundhati Roy, Bluest Eye, book bans, censorship, God of Small Things, Khaled Hosseini, Kite Runner, Toni Morrison Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged abortions, Black fertility, slavery, Toni Morrison, white supremacy Comments closed
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?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, GOP, Homer, Odyssey, Oedipus, Sophocles, Toni Morrison Comments closed
“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.
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) […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, magical realism, Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, symbolic vs literal thinking, Toni Morrison, Trump's wall Comments closed
Magical Realism’s Special Powers
Magical realism defined and its significance discussed.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass, Haruki Marakami, magical realism, Tin Drum, Toni Morrison, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Comments closed
Ivanka Doesn’t Understand “Beloved”
When Ivanka Trump quotes Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” in her recent book, she does everything I tell my students not to: she reduces the work to herself.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ivanka Trump, slavery, Toni Morrison, Women Who Work, working women Comments closed