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This paper outlines the differences between views of feminism seen in Toni Morison's, Sula, and Alice Walker's, The Color Purple. ...

In four pages this paper examines how personality is affected by freedom in this analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Margare...

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

A thematic analysis of Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson' comprises five pages. There are no other sources listed....

This short story by Toni Cade Bambara is examined in an analysis of identity and trust issues in a paper consisting of five pages....

This 3 page paper discusses the way in which four authors treat the issues of language, rape, education and incest at the family l...

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...

"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

read. Morrison presents these excerpts, and the distorted excerpts, to illustrate a nation that has long held racism out for all t...

that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

where people were loud as they danced and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very s...

all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...

very beginning of the book a reader understands that this will not be, in any way, a "usual" story, especially as the logic behind...

Jadine and Sons respective interpretations of race and social stature represent. That each conflict intertwines with one another ...

We see that part of the past is dead, with the death of Baby Suggs who was a constant reminder of slavery and the hope inherently ...

money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...

steaks (Tony Romas, 2003). One weekend during the 1970s, Tony Roma and his chef, David Smith, decided to try an experiment - they ...

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...