Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Toni Morrison / Solomon O. Iyasere, Marla W. Iyasere -- Biography of Toni Morrison / Kwame S. N. Dawes -- The Paris review perspective / Sasha Weiss -- Toni Morrison : solo flight through literature into history / Trudier Harris -- A context for understanding Morrison's work / Susan R. Bowers -- The critical reception of Toni Morrison's work / Jennifer E. Dunn -- Morrison's novels as texts, not works / Philip Page -- Song of Solomon / Karen Carmean -- Crying, dancing, laughing : the breaking and reunification of community in Beloved / Amy M. Green -- Built on the ashes : the fall of the house of Sutpen and the rise of the house of Sethe / Michael Hogan -- Refiguring the flesh : the word, the body, and the rituals of being in Beloved and Go tell it on the mountain / Carol E. Henderson -- The projection of the beast : subverting mythologies in Toni Morrison's Jazz / Darryl Dickson-Carr -- In search of new subjectivity : identity in the novels of Toni Morrison / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis -- Prospero's spell and the question of resistance : Tar baby / Gurleen Grewal -- Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from The bluest eye to Jazz : the importance of Tar Baby / Malin Walther Pereira -- "I been worried sick about you too, Macon" : Toni Morrison, the South, and the oral tradition / Yvonne Atkinson, Philip Page -- "Killing the White girl first" : understanding the politics of Black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise / David Ikard -- A laying on of hands : Toni Morrison and the materiality of Love / Anissa Janine Wardi.