My student’s project on literary bad girls looks at “Jane Eyre,” Toni Morrison’s “Sula,” and Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace.”
Tag Archives: Toni Morrison
Discovering the Bad Girl Within
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Morrison Helps Young Black Men Stand Tall
The story of how Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” inspired one of my African American students.
Love, a Bulwark against Desolation
Toni Morrison expands St. Paul’s vision of love to include erotic love.
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Schools Cowed by the Religious Right
Holly Blumner had a vision. A member of the St. Mary’s theater department, Holly wanted to stage Susan Zeder’s Mother Hicks, a adolescent girl’s identity quest, and then take it into area schools. This post is the story about how rightwing groups have so terrified our schools that the vision died.
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