Tag Archives: uncanny

Morrison’s Healthy Response to Trauma

By Robin Bates | Published: October 6, 2025

Stephen King (IT) and Toni Morrison (Beloved) show how we can live in thrall to our fears but also how we can move past them.

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Poe: Trapped in the Prison of the Self

By Robin Bates | Published: December 1, 2016

Two Chinese students have brought home to me, from their collectivist perspective, how Edgar Allan Poe went against the grain of American individualism. He exposed its dark side, even as Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman were unabashedly celebrated it.

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Discovering the Bad Girl Within

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2013

My student’s project on literary bad girls looks at “Jane Eyre,” Toni Morrison’s “Sula,” and Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace.”

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