Offers an overview of Morrison's life and achievements. Offers numerous entries on her works, major characters, themes, and other topics. Lengthier essays cover each of her novels, along with various approaches to her writings.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
Acknowledgments.
Acton (Jazz).
African Myth, Use of.
Ajax (Sula).
Albright, Mavis (Paradise).
1: Ancestor.
Approaches to Morrison’s Work: Ecocritical.
Approaches to Morrison’s Work: Feminist/Black Feminist.
Approaches to Morrison’s Work: Historical.
Approaches to Morrison’s Work: Pedagogical.
Approaches to Morrison’s Work: Postcolonial.
Approaches to Morrison’s Work: Psychoanalytic.
Approaches to Morrison’s Work: Womanist.
Baines, Guitar (Song of Solomon).
2: Baltimore, Maryland (Jazz).
Beloved (Beloved).
Beloved, Film.
Beloved, Novel (1987).
Big Box, The (1999).
Birth of a Nation’hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case (1997).
Black Book, The (1974).
Bluest Eye, The (1970).
Bodwins, the (Beloved).
3: Bottom, the (Sula).
Breedlove, Cholly (The Bluest Eye).
Breedlove, Pauline (The Bluest Eye).
Breedlove, Pecola (The Bluest Eye).
Brother (Beloved).
Cato, Billie Delia (Paradise).
Cato, Patricia Best (Paradise).
4: Chicken Little (Sula).
Children.
Childs, Jadine (Tar Baby).
Childs, Sydney, and Ondine (Tar Baby).
Church, Soaphead/Micah Elihue Whitcomb (The Bluest Eye).