Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index
Self, society, and myth in Toni Morrison's fiction / Cynthia A. Davis -- A hateful passion, a lost love / Hortense J. Spillers -- Beyond realism : the fictions of Toni Morrison / Keith E. Byerman -- Lady no longer sings the blues : rape, madness, and silence in The bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner -- The crime of innocence in Toni Morrison's Tar baby / Terry Otten -- Like an eagle in the air : Toni Morrison / Melvin Dixon -- Haunted by their nightmares / Margaret Atwood -- "The self and the other" : reading Toni Morrison's Sula and the Black female text / Deborah E. McDowell -- Toni Morrison's Beloved / Roger Sale -- The novelist as conservator : stories and comprehension in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Theodore O. Mason, Jr. -- A different remembering : memory, history and meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Marilyn Sanders Mobley
Unspeakable things unspoken : the Afro-American presence in American literature / Toni Morrison