English 190

Book List

Morrison, Toni: Beloved; Morrison, Toni: Jazz; Morrison, Toni: Love; Morrison, Toni: Paradise; Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon; Morrison, Toni: Sula; Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye

Description

We will read as many of Toni Morrison’s novels as we can in the time we have. Most class meetings will be organized around discussion of the assigned daily reading, though I will intrude with brief lectures when I feel that doing so will help the discussion along. We will address whatever the members of the group feel to be interesting or important, but I will try to keep us attentive to the question of the development of Morrison's art over the course of her career, to the ways in which her writing recurs to certain basic issues and questions, but does so in a way that is constantly innovating, to her writing as a dialogue between recursive and progressive movement. Two ten-page essays will be required, along with regular attendance and participation in discussion, with occasional brief (less than a page) writing assignments to facilitate discussion.

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