Contributor
Solomon, Barbara H.
Imprint:New York : G.K. Hall, c1998.
Descriptionxv, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:REVIEWS: Haunted by their nightmares / Margaret Atwood. - A gravestone of memories / Walter Clemons. - The ghosts of 'sixty million and more' / Walter Clemons. - Death duties: Toni Morrison looks back in sorrow / Ann Snitow. - Toni Morrison's Beloved country: the writer and her haunting tale of slavery / Elizabeth Kastor. - The pleasure of enchantment / Rosellen Brown. - Aunt Medea / Stanley Crouch. - A house divided / Judith Thurman. - Ghost story / Thomas R. Edwards. - Ties that bind / Marsha Jean Darling. -ESSAYS: The opening sentences of Beloved / Toni Morrison. - Nameless ghosts: possession and dispossession in Beloved / Deborah Horvitz. - Temporal defamiliarization in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Brian Finney. - Toni Morrison's Ghost: The beloved who is not beloved / Elizabeth B. House. - Beloved: 'Woman, thy name is demon' / Trudier Harris. - 'Breaking the back of words' : language, silence, and the politics of identity in Beloved / Barbara Hill Rigney. - The telling of Beloved / Eusebio L. Rodrigues. - Beloved: a womanist neo-slave narrative; or multivocal remembrances of things past / Bernard W. Bell. - Call and response as critical method: African-American oral traditions and Beloved / Maggie Sale. - The making of a man: dialogic meaning in Beloved / Deborah Ayer (Sitter). - Beloved and the tyranny of the double / Denise Heinze. - Giving body to the word: the maternal symbolic in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Jean Wyatt. - Reading at the cultural interface: the corn symbolism of Beloved / Wendy Harding and Jacky Martin. -ORIGINAL ESSAYS: The black English oral tradition in Beloved: 'listen to the spaces' / Yvonne Atkinson. - Sethe's re-memories: the covert return of what is best forgotten / Jan Furman. - The disruption of formulaic discourse: writing resistance and truth in Beloved / Lovalerie King. - Transfiguring the narrative: Beloved, from melodrama to tragedy / Terry Otten.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
