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lengthy, detailed information. Frequently uses technical/subject-specific language. (Includes most analytical articles)
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Senior Library Books
- Reading Toni Morrison byCall Number: 813. 54 LISISBN: 9780313354991Publication Date: 2009-08-10This volume offers students and book club members a handy and insight-filled guide to Morrison's works and their relation to current events and popular culture. * Provides questions that can be used to generate book club discussion * Includes sidebars to highlight interesting information about the author and her work * Offers a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic resources to facilitate further study * Film adaptations of the author's works, such as Beloved, are discussed and their impact explored
Senior Library Books
- Beloved byCall Number: 813. 54 PETISBN: 9780826495754Publication Date: 2008-04-21Beloved is an extraordinary novel: it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1987, and author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Lterature in 1993. Set in the era of slavery, emancipation, and reconstruction in the United States, Beloved explores essential questions involving freedom, selfhood, love, and responsibility. The novel's intricate narrative strategies, its compelling cast of characters, and its exploration of African American history make Beloved a richly complex and often difficult text. This guide to Morrison's novel will help readers not only to understand the story in depth, but to develop sophisticated skills of literary analysis. Readers who grapple successfully with Beloved's characters will also gain valuable insight into the rich thematics and haunting philosophical questions of the novel.
Introduction
Beloved is an extraordinary novel: it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1987, and author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Set in the era of slavery, emancipation, and reconstruction in the United States, Beloved explores essential questions involving freedom, selfhood, love, and responsibility. The novel's intricate narrative strategies, its compelling cast of characters, and its exploration of African American history make Beloved a richly complex text.
Toni Morrison on Beloved
Hay Festival. (2014, November 4). Toni Morrison talks to Peter Florence [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=vtJFK_HtlQk
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Britannica Links
- Toni Morrison. (2019). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from https://school-eb-com-au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/Toni-Morrison/53829Background information from Encyclopedia Britannica on American novelist Toni Morrison.
Articles - Character
- Koolish, L. (2001). 'To be Loved and Cry Shame': A Psychological Reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved. MELUS, 26(4), 169-225.Examines the novel 'Beloved,' by Toni Morrison, in the context of psychology; plot of the novel and description of the novel's characters.
- Wardi, A.J. (2010). A Laying on of Hands: Toni Morrison and the Materiality of "Love". MELUS, 30(3), 282-301.This critical analysis presents a criticism of the books of Toni Morrison, including "Jazz," "Beloved," and "Paradise." It outlines the characters and the symbolic significance of these characters. It cites the scope and significance and the narrative style of the author's literary works. It explores the important role of love for healing the wounded heart of humanity.
Quizlet
- Beloved, Toni Morrison. Retrieved Aug 5 2015, from Quizlet:https://quizlet.com/21435775/beloved-test-review-flash-cards/Quizlet on Toni Morrison's Beloved