Understanding Toni Morrison's Beloved and Sula: Selected Essays and Criticisms of the Works by the Nobel Prize-Winning Author

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vi
• Acknowledgements viii
• Toni Morrison: Selected Works xi
• Introduction xii
• Notes xxiii
• The Tripled Plot and Center of Sula 1
• Notes 17
• Works Cited 18
• Who Cares? Women-Centered Psychology in Sula 19
• Note 46
• Works Cited 47
• Toni Morrison's Sula: A Black Woman's Epic 49
• Notes 60
• The Telling of Beloved 61
• Notes 80

• Title Page iii
• Contents vi
• Acknowledgements viii
• Toni Morrison: Selected Works xi
• Introduction xii
• Notes xxiii
• The Tripled Plot and Center of Sula 1
• Notes 17
• Works Cited 18
• Who Cares? Women-Centered Psychology in Sula 19
• Note 46
• Works Cited 47
• Toni Morrison's Sula: A Black Woman's Epic 49
• Notes 60
• The Telling of Beloved 61
• Notes 80
• Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, "Rememory," and a "Clamor for a Kiss" 83
• Notes 106
• Works Cited 110
• Belonging and Freedom in Morrison's Beloved: Slavery, Sentimentality, and the Evolution of Consciousness 113
• Notes 139
• Works Cited 140
• Will the Parts Hold?: the Journey Toward a Coherent Self in Beloved 143
• Works Cited 153
• The Bonds of Love and the Boundaries of Self in Toni Morrison's Beloved 155
• Notes 171
• Works Cited 172
• I Love to Tell the Story: Biblical Revisions in Beloved 173
• Notes 187
• Works Cited 189
• Mixed Genres and the Logic of Slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved 190
• Notes 202
• Narrative Control and Subjectivity: Dismantling Safety in Toni Morrison's Beloved 204
• Notes 228
• Works Cited 229
• Giving Body to the Word: the Maternal Symbolic in Toni Morrison's Beloved 231
• Notes 250
• Works Cited 254
• Pain and the Unmaking of Self in Toni Morrison's Beloved 258
• Notes 273
• Works Cited 275
• Missing Peace in Toni Morrison's Sula and Beloved 277
• Notes 296
• Works Cited 296
• The Force Outside/The Force Inside: Mother-Love and Regenerative Spaces in Sula and Beloved 297
• Notes 313
• Works Cited 313
• A Blessing and a Burden: the Relation to the Past in Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved 315
• Notes 332
• Works Cited 334
• Sula and Beloved: Images of Cain in the Novels of Toni Morrison 338
• Notes 355
• Works Cited 355
• Selected Bibliography 357
• Contributors to Understanding Toni Morrison's Beloved and Sula 367
• Index 372