Soledad Creativa con Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart

While sorting through mountains of articles and books about the works of Toni Morrison, I realized there existed a glaring omission in the literature: there was yet to be published a single volume that solely addressed the characterization of mothers in Morrison's narrative. Given that I compare portraits of maternity in novels by women authors of the Americas in my doctoral work, I was overcom...

african-american subjectivity in toni morrison's beloved

the present project is an attempt to give a model of african-american subjectivity by applying different theories of subjectivity to toni morrison's representation of african-american people in beloved. since beloved represents a group of ex-slaves, who remember harsh memories of slavery, their subjectivities can be analyzed from a post-colonial perspective within the framework of the rela...

How Toni Morrison's Facebook Page Re(con)figures Race and Gender

In her article "How Toni Morrison's Facebook Page Re(con)figures Race and Gender" Beatriz Revelles-Benavente explores Morrison's Facebook page and comments on it. In 2010, Morrison opened a Facebook page where she received a large amount of comments and created debates and RevellesBenavente analyses how these comments navigate questions of race and gender. Based on theoretical considerations ab...

Toni Hirvonen and Ville Pulkki

Taking a Bit of Foreskin with Him to Jesus: An Intersection of Black and Queer Signs in the Novels of Toni Morrison

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