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In five pages this research paper assesses the artistic and musical contributions of African Americans throughout history in the m...
In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...
However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...
relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...
social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...
end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...
remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...
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...
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 ...
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...
at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...
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...
It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...
This 5 page paper examines the structure of Toni Morrison's novel Sula. The writer argues that Morrison uses the friendship betwee...
the abuse of a child, however the reader may not like that. This same critic indicates how it was "Her scratching the back of her...
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...
a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...
tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...
This 5 page paper examines Toni Morrison's novel Beloved from a feminist perspective. The writer analyzes Beloved herself, who app...
This 6 page paper compares and contrasts the themes and characters in two of Toni Morrison's novels, Beloved and The Bluest Eye. T...
This 8 page paper considers Sethe's sense of what it means to be a mother in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. The writer argues that...
This 7 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's use of vacant facial expressions in her novel Beloved can be understood with referen...
under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...