Select Bibliography : Toni Literature

 Select Bibliography : Toni Literature

Dr Manisha Patil 

Primary Sources 

1. Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon (1977), New York: Vintage, 2004

2. Morrison, Toni, Sula (1973), New York: Vintage, 2004

3. Morrison, Toni, Tar Baby (1981), New York: Vintage, 2004 

4. Morrison, Toni, The Bluest Eye (1970), London: Vintage, 1999

Secondary Sources

Books

1. Abrams, M.H., A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7/e, Harcourt College Publishers, 2001. 

2. Achebe, Chinua, Hopes and Impediment: Selected Essays, New York: Doubleday, 1988

3. Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (rev. ed.) London: Verso. 1991. 

4. Anzaldua, Gloria, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1987

5. Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., Tiffin, H., Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Literatures, Routledge, London, 1989.

6. Barker, Philip, Michael Foucault: Introduction, Edinburgh University Press, 1998. 

7. Bhabha, Homi K., Nation and Narration, Routledge, New York and London, 1990. 

8. Bhabha, Homi K., The Location of Culture, Routledge, London, 1994.  

9. Birch, Eva Lennox, A Quilt of Many Colors: Black American Women Writing, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994

10. Carby, Hazel, Reconstructing Womanhood, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987

11. Chatterjee, Parth, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993

12. Christian, Barbara, Black feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers, New York: Pergamon, 1985 

13. Derrida, Jacques, Writing and Difference, Trans. Alan Bass, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1978. 297

14. Duvell, John, The Identifying the Fictions of Toni Morrison, Palgrave, New York, 2000.

15. Ellison, Ralph, Shadow and Act, New York: Random, 1964 

16. Fanon, Franz, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann, Grove Press, New York, 1967. (Original French edition 1952) 

17. Fanon, Franz, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Constance Farrington. Grove Press, New York, 1986. (Original French edition 1961)

18. Foucault Michael, ‘Truth and Power’ Power / Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-77. Ed Colin Gorden. Trans LeoMarshall, John Mepham and Kate Soper, New York: Pantheon, 1980. 131

19. Gandhi, Leela, Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, Oxford University Press, 1998. 

20. Gates, Henry Louis Jr. and K. A. Appiah. (ed.), Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad, New York, 1993.

21. Gilroy, Paul, Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures, London: Serpent’s Tail P, 1995.

22. Grewal, Gurleen, Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle, Louisiana State University Press, 1998.

23. Harris, Trudier, Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991

24. Hutcheon, Linda, The Politics of Postmodernism, New York: Routledge, 1989

25. Johnson, Barbara, A World of Difference, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987

26. Loomba, Ania, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Routledge: London, 1998. 

27. Mbalia, Doreatha Drummund, Toni Morrison’s Developing Class Consciousness, Toronto: Associated University Press, 1991. 

28. McKay, Nellie Y. (ed), Critical Essays on Toni Morrison, G. K. Hall and Co., Boston, 1988

29. Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. 

30. Nandy, Ashish, Oppression and Human Liberation: toward a post-Gandhian Utopia, Political Thought in Modern India, ed. Thomas Pantham and Kenneth L. Deutsch, Sage, New Delhi, 1986

31. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African literature, London: James Currey, 1989. 

32. Page, Philip, Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison’s Novels, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995

33. Peterson, Nancy J. (ed.), Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1997

34. Rodney, Walter, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Dar e Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House, 1972.

35. Said, Edward, Orientalism: Western Concepts of the Orient, Pantheon Books, 1978

36. Taylor-Guthrie, Danille Kathleen (ed.), Conversations with Toni Morrison, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994

37. Vishwanathan, Gauri, Mask of Conquest: Literary Studies and British Rule in India, Faber and Faber, London, 1989

38. Walker, Alice, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, San Diego: Harcourt, 1983 

39. Young, Robert, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race, Routledge, London and New York, 1995

40. Young, Robert, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford and Malden, Mass., 2001.

41. Young, Robert, Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003.

42. Young, Robert, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West Routledge, London and New York 1990. Second edition, 2004.

Articles

1. Badt, Karin Luisa, “The Roots of the Body in Toni Morrison: A Matter of ‘Ancient Properties’,” African American Review, Vol. 29, No. 4, Winter 1995.

2. Baker, Houston A Jr., When Lindbergh Sleeps with Bessie Smith: The Writing of Place in Sula, Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr., New York: Amistad P, 1993 

3. Berendt, Joachim E., The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond, Rev. Gupther Huesmann Trans. H and B Bredigkeit, et al. Brooklyn Lawrence Hill, (1992) 161

4. Bergenholtz, Rita, Toni Morrison’s Sula: A satire on Binary Thinking, African American Review, Volume 30, Issue 1, 1996, pg. 89 +

5. Butter, R. J., Open Movement and Selfhood in Toni Morrison’s Song Of Solomon, Centennial Review XXVIII – XXIX (1984-85)

6. Campbell, Sean, Struggling with a History of Capitalism in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.<http://www.class.uidaho.edu/banks/1999/articles/struggling_with_a_history.htm>

7. Denard, Carolyn, The Convergence of Feminism and Ethnicity in the Fiction of Toni Morrison, Critical essays on Toni Morrison, ed. Nellie Y. McKay, G. K. Hall and Co., Boston, 1988

8. Duberstein, Roberta, Singing the Blues / Reclaiming Jazz: Toni Morrison and Cultured Mourning, Mosaic, Vol. 31, Issue 2, 1998

9. Galehouse, Maggie, New World Woman: Toni Morrison’s Sula, Papers on Language and Literature, Southern Illinois University, 1999. pg. 339 +

10. Gillan Jennifer, “Focusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, the Maginot Line and The Bluest Eye,” African American Review, Vol. 36, No 2, 2002 

11. Goldner, Ellen J., Other Ghosts: Gothicism and the Bonds of Reason in Melville, Chesnutt and Morrison, MELUS (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States), Spring 1999

12. Heyman, Richard, “Universalization and Its Discontents: Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” A (w)holy Black Text, African American Review Vol. 29, No.3, 1995

13. Hunt, Patricia, “War and Peace: Transfigured Categories and the Politics of Sula,” African American Review, Volume 27, Issue 3, 1993, pg. 443+

14. Khayati Abdellatif, “Representation, Race and the Language of the Ineffable in Toni Morrison’s Narrative,” African American Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer, 1999. 

15. Knadler, Stephen., “Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance,” African American Review Vol. 38, No. 1, 2004

16. Kuenz, Jane, “The Bluest Eye: Notes on History, community and Black Female Subjectivity,” African American Review, Vol. 27, Issue 3, 1993

17. Lee, Catherine Carr, The South in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: Initiation, healing and home, Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall 1998

18. Lorde, Audre, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Whole Earth Review, Summer, 1989 

19. Mayberry, Susan Neal, “Something other than a family quarrel: The Beautiful Boys in Morrison’s Sula,” African American Review, Volume 37, No. 4, 2003 

20. McKee, Patricia, Spacing and Placing Experience in Toni Morrison’s Sula, Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches, ed. Nancy J. Peterson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1997

21. Morrison, Toni, Art of Fiction, CXXXIV, Paris Review 128 (1993)

22. Morrison, Toni, What the Black Woman Thinks about Women’s Lib?, New York Times Magazine 22 August 1971: +

23. Morrison, Toni, “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in America Literature,” Michigan Quarterly Review 28 919890: 1-34

24. Moses, Cat, “The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye,” African American Review, Winter, 1999

25. Naomi Van Tol, The Fathers may Soar: Folklore and Blues in Song of Solomon <http://spiny.com/naomi/thesis>

26. Parikh, Bharati A., Black Women Novelist: Development, Flowering and Fruitation of a Tradition, Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Reader’s Companion, ed. Ayesha Irfan, Asia Book Club, 2002

27. Pereira, Malin Walther, Periodizing Toni Morrison’s Work from The Bluest Eye to Jazz: The Importance of Tar Baby MELUS (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States), Vol. 22 Issue 3, 1997

28. Pessoni, Michele, “‘She was laughing at their God’: Discovering the Goddess within Sula,” African American Review, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1995

29. Powell, Timothy B., Toni Morrison: The struggle to Depict the Black Figure on the White Page, Black American literature Forum 24 (1990)

30. Rayson, Ann, Foreign Exotic or Domestic Drudge? : The African American Women in Quicksand and Tar Baby Novels by Nella Larson and Toni Morrison, MELUS (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States), Summer, 1998 

31. Robenstein, Roberta, Signing the Blues /Reclaiming Jazz: Toni Morrison and Cultural Mourning, Mosaic, Vol. 31, issue 2, 1998.

32. Rothberg, Michael, “Dead Letter Office: Conspiracy Trauma and Song of Solomon’s Posthumous Communication,” African American Review, Winter 2003

33. Ryan, J.S., Contested Vision/Double Vision in Tar Baby, Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches, ed. Nancy J. Peterson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1997

34. Storhoff, Gary, ‘Anaconda Love’: Parental Enmeshment in Song of Solomon, Style, Summer, 1997

35. Vickroy, Lourie, The Politics of Abuse: The Traumatized child in Toni Morrison and Marguerite Duras, Mosaic, Vol. 29, Issue 2, 1996. pg 91+

36. Werner, C. H., The Briar Patch as Modernist Myth: Morrison, Barthes and Tar Baby As-Is, Critical Essays on Toni Morrison ed. Nellie Y. McKay, G. K. Hall and Co., Boston, 1988

Interviews 

1. Bonnie Angelo in an interview with Toni Morrison, The Pain of Being Black: An Interview, Times, 22 May, 1989 p.p. 48-50 

2. Carabi, Angels, Interview with Toni Morrison, Belies, Letters (10.2.1995) 40-43

3. Le Clair, Thomas, A Conversation with Toni Morrison: ‘The Language Must Not Sweat.’ New Republic 21 Mar. 1981: 25¬32. 

4. Marcus, Janes. This side of Paradise: Interview with Toni Morrison, 1998 Amazon 27Sept. 2005 <http:/www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/7651/104-859530-1497527>

5. McKay, Nellie, An Interview with Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and K.A. Appiah, New York: Amistand, 193. 411. 

6. Morrison, Toni and Paul Grey, Paradise Found, Time 151.1 (1998). 19 Jan 1998. 9 May 2001. <http ://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980119/cover1.html>

7. Schappell, Elissa, Interview with Toni Morrison: Women Writers at Work, ed. Paris Review. New York: Modern Library 1998

8. Stepto, Robert B., Intimate Things in Place: A conversation with Toni Morrison, Massachusetts Review 18 (1977): 473-89

Websites

1. http://aalbc.com/authors/toni.htm

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonialism

4. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/toni_morrison.html

5. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show_tag?name=toni

6. http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm

7. http://www.postcolonialweb.org/poldiscourse/themes/themes.html

8. http://www.tonimorrisonsociety.org/

9. http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/tm/poco.html

Dr Manisha Patil