Toni Morrison And the Bible

by Stave, Shirley A.

• ISBN13: 9780820469355
• ISBN10: 0820469351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-24
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

This collection of essays critically interrogates Toni Morrison's use of the Bible in her novels, examining the ways in which the author plays on the original text to raise issues of spirituality as it affects race, gender, and class. Ideal for courses on

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(7)
Shirley A. Stave
Trial by Fire: The Theodicy of Toni Morrison in Sula	8	(18)
Beverly Foluks
Toni Morrison's Beloved: Psalm and Sacrament	26	(45)
Nancy Berkowitz Bate
To Live This Life Intensely and Well: The Rebirth of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon	71	(23)
David Z. Wehner
Intimate Fatality: Song of Solomon and the Journey Home	94	(22)
Beth Benedrix
The Bible as Intertext in Toni Morrison's Novels	116	(13)
Agnes Suranyi
The ``Female Revealer'' in Beloved, Jazz and Paradise: Syncretic Spirituality in Toni Morrison's Trilogy	129	(1)
Sharon Jessee
Mythopoetic Syncretism in Paradise and the Deconstruction of Hospitality in Love	129	(46)
Benjamin Burr
Jazz Funerals and Mourning Songs: Toni Morrison's Call to the Ancestors in Sula	175	(17)
Anissa Janine Wardi
A New World Religion? Creolisation and Candomble in Toni Morrison's Paradise	192	(23)
Jennifer Terry
The Master's Tools: Morrison's Paradise and the Problem of Christianity	215	(17)
Shirley A. Stave
Ritual and ``Other'' Religions in The Bluest Eye	232	(25)
Rebecca Degler
List of Contributors	257