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The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

Literature By and About Women

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

New Deal in Framing America by Frances K. Pohl and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...

Submissive Gender Roles in Sula and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Jadine and Sons respective interpretations of race and social stature represent. That each conflict intertwines with one another ...

An Analysis of the Opening Chapter of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...

Dramatic Elements in Morrison's Bluest Eye

This paper addresses Toni Morrison's use of misnaming and other dramatic techniques. This six page paper has no additional source...

Postmodern Techniques in Beloved by Toni Morrison

they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...

Four Novels and the American Dream

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. ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

American Education, Three Representations

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

Two Psychological Views on Morrison's Beloved

(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...

Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones

white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...

All for One and One for All? An Analysis of Toni Morrison's Barnard College Speech

Within 3 pagess, Toni Morrison's 1979 speech at Barnard College is analyzed. Is it possible for women to survive a man's world if ...

Black Literature and Its Portrayals of Sexual Molestation, Domestic Violence

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

A Psychological Examination of Sethe, from “Beloved”

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

Naming Conventions in "Beloved"

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...

Racism in The Bluest Eye

read. Morrison presents these excerpts, and the distorted excerpts, to illustrate a nation that has long held racism out for all t...

Issues in Morrison's The Bluest Eye

that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

Plantation Mistress and Beloved by Morrison

these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

Toni Morrison’s Sula

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

Sula by Toni Morrison

It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...

The Bluest Eye and Abuse

the abuse of a child, however the reader may not like that. This same critic indicates how it was "Her scratching the back of her...

Characters Who Are Trapped

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...

Toni Morrison’s Sula: Moral Ambiguity

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

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...

Morrison’s Acquisition of Safeway

the acquisition was thought to bring value and that in hindsight the problems that were seen were only those which should have bee...

Sula by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper summarizes Tony Morrison's novel Sula. Primary source only....

The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...