Toni Morrison and the Maternal: From The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, Revised Edition (Paperback, 2, Revised)

Preface ? Acknowledgments and Reference Systems ? Introduction: Morrison and the Maternal ? Mothers at Random in The Bluest Eye ? Sula and the Individuality of Mothering ? Replacement Mothering in Song of Solomon ? Tar Baby and Its Multiple Non-mothers ? Beloved, Beloved, Beloved, Beloved ? Jazz and Its Mothers and Non-mothers ? Playing in the Dark and the Nobel Acceptance Lecture ? Paradise and Its Mothers ? Love and Its Absence of Mothers ? A Mercy and Abandoning Mothers ? Frank Money, Cee, and the Maternal in Home ? God Help the Child ? Coda ? Notes ? Selected Bibliography ? Index.