YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Works of Toni Morrison
Essays 151 - 180
However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...
African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...
the good parent, the grandparent. Some say he is father; others say she is mother. But the sentiment is the same: Nana is the sour...
relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...
only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...
the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...
This 3 page paper discusses the way in which four authors treat the issues of language, rape, education and incest at the family l...
This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...
In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...
read. Morrison presents these excerpts, and the distorted excerpts, to illustrate a nation that has long held racism out for all t...
that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...
(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...
This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...
In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...
This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...
these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...
harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...
In six pages this paper charts the course of American literature in a consideration of popular movements with examples and a focus...
a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...
tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...
has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...
a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...
In five pages this research paper assesses the artistic and musical contributions of African Americans throughout history in the m...
girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...
also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...
In four pages this paper examines how personality is affected by freedom in this analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Margare...
In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...
This paper addresses Toni Morrison's use of misnaming and other dramatic techniques. This six page paper has no additional source...