Toni Morrison and the Bible: Contested Intertextualities (Paperback)

Contents: Shirley A. Stave: Introduction ? Beverly Foulks: Trial by Fire: The Theodicy of Toni Morrison in Sula ? Nancy Berkowitz Bate: Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Psalm and Sacrament ? David Z. Wehner: To Live This Life Intensely and Well: The Rebirth of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon ? Beth Benedrix: Intimate Fatality: Song of Solomon and the Journey Home ? Agnes Suranyi: The Bible as Intertext in Toni Morrison’s Novels ? Sharon Jessee: The ≪Female Revealer≫ in Beloved, Jazz and Paradise: Syncretic Spirituality in Toni Morrison’s Trilogy ? Benjamin Burr: Mythopoetic Syncretism in Paradise and the Deconstruction of Hospitality in Love ? Anissa Janine Wardi: Jazz Funerals and Mourning Songs: Toni Morrison’s Call to the Ancestors in Sula ? Jennifer Terry: A New World Religion? Creolisation and Candomble in Toni Morrison’s Paradise ? Shirley A. Stave: The Master’s Tools: Morrison’s Paradise and the Problem of Christianity ? Rebecca Degler: Ritual and ≪Other≫ Religions in The Bluest Eye.