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Tag Archives: Toni Morrison
Why Fiction Terrifies People
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Beloved, Ben Jonson, Better Living through Literature, book bans, Christopher Marlowe, Dangerous Fictions, Harold Bloom, Hesiod, Homer, Iliad, Lyta Gold, Odyssey, Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, Plato, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Florida School Pulls Paradise Lost
A Florida County has pulled “Paradise Lost” from the shelves. It’s true that the work has “sexual content.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bacchae, Book banning, canon wars, censorship, Euripides, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Ron DeSantis, Song of Solomon Comments closed
On Defending Books against Bullies
On book banning and how to respond to the banners.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Smut", Antonia Scatton, Beloved, Book banning, censorship, Tom Lehrer Comments closed
Bluest Eye and Ohio’s Abortion Politics
Morison’s “Bluest Eye” functions as an implicit rebuke of the Ohio legislature’s attack on abortion.
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, racism, Ron DeSantis, Song of Solomon Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bluest Eye, C.S. Lewis, cancel culture, Cat's Eye, censorship, Clansman, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Light in August, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lottery, Margaret Atwood, Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson, Thomas Dixon, William Faulkner Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alan Tate, Andrew Lytle, Ares, Civil War, John Crowe Ransom, Michael Gorra, racism, Southern Agrarians, William Faulkner Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Cormac McCarthy, Donald Trump, Flannery O'Connor, Justice, Sanctuary, Trump indictments, William Faulkner Comments closed