Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Start: Topical Index: Representations: Literary Texts: 20th Century:

Representations: Literary Texts:
TONI MORRISON

G e n e r a l   I n f o r m a t i o n

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General

K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Modern History: 20th Century | Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | Types: General: Rape


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

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

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Beloved (Novel, 1987)

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K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Modern History: 20th Century | Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | 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 BelovedSigns 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 BelovedPMLA 112 (1997): 418-427.

[Info] Barnett, Pamela E. »Figurations of Rape and the Supernatural in BelovedToni 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 Toni Morrison’s BelovedWomen 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 Beloved10th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. New Orleans 2018.



The Bluest Eye (Novel)

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K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Modern History: 20th Century | Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | 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 EyeConjuring. 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.



God Help the Child (Novel)

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).

II. Speaker Index

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Tar Baby (Novel, 1981)

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 BabyContemporary 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

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