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In 5 pages sex as an instrument of power rather than an expression of intimacy is considered in this analysis of Beloved by Toni M...

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

In six pages this paper examines the ties to the South northern based characters have in The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Beloved by Toni...

This 5 page paper discusses the struggles African-Americans face as they move from a rural setting to an urban one, as portrayed i...

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two novels, The Wedding by Dorothy West and Jazz by Toni Morrison. The novels are the onl...

mass culture for anyone who is not included in it and for African-Americans especially, usually requires a leaving of ones own sel...

This 5 page paper discusses the way in which Toni Morrison handles the issue of racism as the definition of belonging, beauty and ...

This 5 page paper analyzes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the way in which she observes the standards of beauty society sets,...

shod. Geraldine did not talk to him, coo to him, or indulge him in kissing bouts, but she saw that every other desire was fulfill...

She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...

at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...

and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets...

the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...

end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...

Nel and Sula. Nel is light-skinned and lives in a tidy, respectable middle class home. Sula is deep brown and lives in a disrep...

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

very beginning of the book a reader understands that this will not be, in any way, a "usual" story, especially as the logic behind...