Seminar on Toni Morrison

Catalog description

A comprehensive study of the works of Toni Morrison, the course situates her novels and nonfiction prose in their historical and cultural contexts. Attention to narrative techniques as well as to theoretical approaches from a range of disciplines offers students the opportunity to explore topics including gender and slavery, violence and trauma, identity construction, Black masculinity, commodity culture and racialized identity, law and civil rights, accommodation and resistance, family structures, community, geography and location/dislocation/relocation, ethics and relation, and Black female sexualities.