SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Toni Morrison

»Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

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I. Author Index

[Info] Drake, Kimberly. »Rape and resignation. Silencing the victim in the novels of Morrison and Wright.« Lit 6 (1995): 63-72.

[Info] Roynon, Tessa. »Sabotaging the Language of Pride: Toni Morrison's Representations of Rape.« Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation. Edited by Sorcha Gunne et al. New York 2010: 38-53.

II. Speaker Index

Beloved

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»Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. The narrative of Beloved derives from the life of Margaret Garner, an enslaved person in the enslaving state of Kentucky who escaped and fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Alexandre, Sandy. »From the Same Tree: Gender and Iconography in Representations of Violence in Beloved.« Signs 36 (2011): 915-940.

[Info] Barnett, Pamela E. The Language of Rape: Sexual Violence in Novels by Faulkner, Naylor and Morrison. Ph.D. Thesis, Emory University, 1996.

[Info] Barnett, Pamela E. »Figurations of Rape and the Supernatural in Beloved.« PMLA 112 (1997): 418-427.

[Info] Barnett, Pamela E. »Figurations of Rape and the Supernatural in Beloved.« Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Edited by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia 1998.

[Info] Crawford, Samantha N. Rape and the Aftermath in African American Women's Fiction. Honors Thesis, Florida State University, 2020.

[Info] Field, Robin E. Writing the Victim: Rescripting Rape in Contemporary American Fiction since 1970. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2006.

[Info] Henderson, Trisha A. Sexual violence against women of color: Achieving agency through community voice, purposeful silence, and responsible literary representations. M.A. Thesis, Iowa State University, 2013.

[Info] Khanom, Roxana. »Exploring Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Select Novels of Toni Morrison.« BL College Journal 5 (2023): 81-91.

[Info] Wane Ly, Mariame, et al. »Outlining Trauma and Mental Disorder in Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison: In the Skirts of Slavery and Feminine Psychoanalysis.« Revue LiLaS 1 (2023): 165-184.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Field, Robin E. »Tracing Rape: The Trauma of Slavery in in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.« Women Writing Rape: Literary and Theoretical Narratives of Sexual Violence. Warwick 2007.

[Info] Pergadia, Samantha. »Like I Was the Cow’: Mammary Rape, Dairying, and Analogies of Sexual Violence in Beloved.« 10^th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. New Orleans 2018.

The Bluest Eye

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»The Bluest Eye is the first novel written by American author Toni Morrison and published in 1970. It takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grew up following the Great Depression. She is consistently regarded as "ugly" due to her mannerisms and dark skin. As a result, she develops an inferiority complex, which fuels her desire for the blue eyes she equates with "whiteness".
The novel is told mostly from Claudia MacTeer's point of view. Claudia is the daughter of Pecola's temporary foster parents. There is also some omniscient third-person narration. The book's controversial topics of racism, incest, and child molestation have led to numerous attempts to ban the novel from schools and libraries in the United States.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Badia, Janet. »"Dismissed, trivialized, misread": Re-Examining the Reception of Women's Literature through the #MeToo Movement.« #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. New York 2021: 31-42.

[Info] Abbas, Ahmed H. »New Issues of Women Characters In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula.« Journal of Basra Research for Human Sciences 43 (2018): 113-124.

[Info] Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham 2012.

[Info] Atkins, Christine E. "Don t Walk Alone": Twentieth Century American Women Writers and Narratives of Violence. Ph.D. Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2000.

[Info] Crawford, Samantha N. Rape and the Aftermath in African American Women's Fiction. Honors Thesis, Florida State University, 2020.

[Info] Diakhaté, Babacar. »Child Abuse, Exploitation and the Quest for a Better Life in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come (2004) and Swallow (2010) and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970).« Britain International of Humanities and Social Sciences 2 (2020): 67-71.

[Info] Field, Robin E. Writing the Victim: Rescripting Rape in Contemporary American Fiction since 1970. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2006.

[Info] Grogan, Christine. Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless. Lanham 2016.

[Info] Jennings, La Vinia D. Sexual violence in the works of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989.

[Info] Khanom, Roxana. »Exploring Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Select Novels of Toni Morrison.« BL College Journal 5 (2023): 81-91.

[Info] Miner, Madonne. »Lady no longer sings the blues. Rape, madness, and silence in The Bluest Eye.« Conjuring. Black women, fiction, and literary tradition. Edited by Marjorie Pryse et al. Bloomington 1985: 176-191.

[Info] Sarkar, Sajal, et al. »A Comparative Study of Pecola and Gyanoda: Sex, Violence and Beauty in the Bluest Eye and Arakshaniya.« American International Journal of Social Science Research 3 (2018): 22-26.

[Info] Singh, Bijender. »Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Comparative Perspectives.« Abhinav 2 (2013): 46-51.

[Info] Storey, Helen C. Gris-gris: a novel and, Contextualising research. Crafting the rape scene: An exploration of how Toni Morrison and Isabel Allende write rape scenes in The Bluest Eye and The House of the Spirits and how their approaches influence the crafting of those in Gris-Gris. Ph.D. Thesis, Bath Spa University, 2015.

[Info] Young, Tiffany A. Rape in Contemporary American Literature: Writing Women As Rapeable. M.A. Thesis, Florida State University, 2007.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah. »Unchaining Daughter s Body: Refiguring Black Families in the "Postracial" United States.« Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. San Antonio 2010.

[Info] Sande, Melissa. »Female Subjectivity, Sexual Violence, and the American Nation: Toni Morrison s The Bluest Eye.« 26^th Annual Conference on American Literature. Boston 2015.

God Help the Child

I n f o r m a t i o n

»God Help the Child is the 11th and final novel by American writer Toni Morrison. News of the book, as well as the title and opening line, were released in December 2014. The novel's original title, preferred by Morrison herself, is The Wrath of Children.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Zenadji, Lilia. »The Collective Unconscious and Rape Archetype in Toni Morrison s God Help the Child and Alice Walker s The Color Purple.« Aleph (February 12, 2021).

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Tar Baby

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Tar Baby is a 1981 novel by the American author Toni Morrison, her fourth to be published.
This novel portrays a love affair between Jadine and Son, two Black Americans from very different worlds. Jadine is a beautiful Sorbonne graduate and fashion model who has been sponsored into wealth and privilege by the Streets, a wealthy white family who employ Jadine's aunt and uncle as domestic servants. Son is an impoverished, strong-minded man who washes up at the Streets' estate on a Caribbean island.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Duvall, John N. »Descent in the "House of Chloe". Race, rape, and identity in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.« Contemporary literature 38 (1997): 325-349.

[Info] Jennings, La Vinia D. Sexual violence in the works of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989.

[Info] Khanom, Roxana. »Exploring Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Select Novels of Toni Morrison.« BL College Journal 5 (2023): 81-91.

II. Speaker Index