Toni Morrison And the Bible

This collection of essays critically interrogates Toni Morrison's use of the Bible in her novels, examining the ways in which the author plays on the original text to raise issues of spirituality as it affects race, gender, and class. Ideal for courses on

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

1

(7)

Shirley A. Stave

Trial by Fire: The Theodicy of Toni Morrison in Sula

8

(18)

Beverly Foluks

Toni Morrison's Beloved: Psalm and Sacrament

26

(45)

Nancy Berkowitz Bate

To Live This Life Intensely and Well: The Rebirth of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

71

(23)

David Z. Wehner

Intimate Fatality: Song of Solomon and the Journey Home

94

(22)

Beth Benedrix

The Bible as Intertext in Toni Morrison's Novels

116

(13)

Agnes Suranyi

The ``Female Revealer'' in Beloved, Jazz and Paradise: Syncretic Spirituality in Toni Morrison's Trilogy

129

(1)

Sharon Jessee

Mythopoetic Syncretism in Paradise and the Deconstruction of Hospitality in Love

129

(46)

Benjamin Burr

Jazz Funerals and Mourning Songs: Toni Morrison's Call to the Ancestors in Sula

175

(17)

Anissa Janine Wardi

A New World Religion? Creolisation and Candomble in Toni Morrison's Paradise

192

(23)

Jennifer Terry

The Master's Tools: Morrison's Paradise and the Problem of Christianity

215

(17)

Shirley A. Stave

Ritual and ``Other'' Religions in The Bluest Eye

232

(25)

Rebecca Degler

List of Contributors

257

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Toni Morrison And the Bible

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