Selected Bibliography of Criticism
on Beloved by Toni Morrison
by EN202 Writing About Literature Students, Millikin University
Ayer (Sitter), Deborah. “The Making of a Man: Dialogic Meaning in Beloved.” Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Ed. Barbara H. Solomon. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1998. 189-204.
Babbitt, Susan E. "Identity, Knowledge, and Tonie Morrison's Beloved: Questions About Understanding Racism.” Hypatia 9.3 (1994): 1-17. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U., Decatur, IL. 14 Nov. 2007 http://epnet.com
Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann. Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Berger, James. “Ghosts of Liberalism: Morrison’s Beloved and the Moynihan Report.”
PMLA 111 (1996): 408-420.
Berret, Anthony J. "Toni Morrison's Literary Jazz." College Language AssociationJournal 32 (1989). 267-83.
Bidney, Martin. “Creating a Feminist-Communitarian Romanticism in 'Beloved': Toni Morrison's New Uses for Blake, Keats, and Wordsworth.” Papers on Language & Literature, 36.3 (2000): 271-301. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U., Decatur, IL. 14 Nov. 2007 http://epnet.com
Caesar, Terry Paul. Slavery and Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Revista de Letras, 34 (1994). 111-20.
Carden, Mary P. "Models of Memory and Romance: the Dual Endings of Toni Morrison's Beloved." Twentieth Century Literature 45 (1999): 401-427.
Cutter, Martha J. “The Story Must Go On and On: The fantastic, Narration, and Intertextuality in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Jazz.” African American Review 34 (2000): 61-75.
Davis, Kimberly Chabot. "'Postmodern Blackness': Toni Morrison's Beloved and the End of History." Twentieth Century Literature 44 (1998): 242-260. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U., Decatur, IL. 20 Nov. 2007 http://epnet.com
Dobbs, Cynthia. "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Bodies Returned, Modernism Revisited." African American Review 32 (1998): 563-578. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U., Decatur, IL. 20 Nov. 2007 http://epnet.com
Elliot, Mary Jane. “Postcolonial Experience in a Domestic Context: Commodified Subjectivity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” MELUS 20.3 (2000): 181-202.
Eppert, Claudia. "Histories Re-imagined, Forgotten and Forgiven: Student Responses to Toni Morrison's Beloved." Changing English 10.2 (2003). Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U., Decatur, IL. 20 Nov. 2007 http://epnet.com
Field, Robin E. “Tracing Rape: The Trauma of Slavery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Women Writing Rape: The Blog (April 2007). http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/women-writing-rape/entry/robin_e_fields/
Grewal, Gurleen. Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
Hall, Cheryl. “Beyond the ‘Literary Habit’: Oral Tradition and Jazz in Beloved.” MELUS 19.1 (1994): 89-96. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U., Decatur, IL. 14 Nov. 2007 http://epnet.com
Handley, William R. “The House a Ghost Built: Nommo, Allegory, and the Ethics of Reading in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Contemporary Literature 36 (1995): 676-701.
Harris, Trudier. “Beloved: ‘Woman, Thy Name Is Demon.’” Critical Essays on Toni
Morrison’s Beloved. Ed. Barbara H. Solomon. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1998. 127-137.
Hinson, D. Scot. “Narrative and Community Crisis in ‘Beloved’” MELUS, 26(4), African American Literature. (2001), 147-167. JSTOR. Millikin U, Decatur, IL. 25 Nov. 2007. http://www.jstor.org
Holden-Kirwan, Jennifer. “Lookinginto the self that is no self: an examination of subjectivity in Beloved.” 1998. 22 November. 2007. <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/in_n3_v32/ai_21232162>
Koolish, Lynda. “‘To Be Loved and Cry Shame’: A Psychological Reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” MELAS 26 (2001): 169-195. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U, Decatur, IL. 14 Nov. 2007 http://epnet.com
Liscio, Lorraine. “Beloved's Narrative: Writing Mother's Milk.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 11(1). (1992), 31-46. JSTOR. Millikin U, Decatur, IL. 25 Nov. 2007. http://www.jstor.org
Liscio, Lorraine. “Beloved’s Narrative: Writing Mother’s Milk.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 11 (1992): 31-46.
Matthew, Rene and Robin Chandler. “Using Reader Response to Teach Beloved in a High School American Studies Classroom.” English Journal 88 (1998): 85-92.
Mitchell, Angelyn. The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slaver, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U P, 2002.
Parker, Emma. “A New Hystery: History and Hysteria in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Twentieth Century Literature 47 (2001) 1-19. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U, Decatur, IL. 10 Nov 2007. http://epnet.com
Phelan, James. “Toward a Rhetorical Reader-Response Criticism: The Difficult, The Stubborn, and the Ending of Beloved.” Modern Fiction Studies 39 (1993): 109-128.
Powell, Betty Jane. “‘Will the Parts Hold?’: The Journey Toward a Coherent Self in
Beloved.” Understanding Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Sula. Eds. Marla W. Iyasere and Solomon O. Iyasere. New York: Whitston Publishing Company, 2000. 143-154.
Riddle, Wesley Allen. “The Origins of Black Sharecropping.” Mississippi Quarterly 49 (1995): 1-14. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U, Decatur, IL. 27 Nov 2007. http://epnet.com
Rody, Caroline. “Toni Morrison’s Beloved: History, ‘Rememory,’ and a ‘Clamor for a
Kiss’.” Understanding Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Sula. Eds. Marla W. Iyasere Solomon O. Iyasere. New York: Whitston Publishing Company, 2000. 83-112.
Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe. “Reader, Text, and Subjectivity: Toni Morrison’s Beloved as Lacan’s Gaze Qua Object.” Style 30 (1996): 445-461.
Solomon, Barbara, ed. Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved. New York: G.K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1998.
Washington, Teresa N. “The Mother-Daughter Aje Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” African American Review 39 (2005): 171-188. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U, Decatur, IL. 14 Nov. 2007 http://epnet.com
Watson, Reginald. “The Power of the ‘Milk’ and Motherhood: Images of Deconstruction and Reconstruction in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Alice Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland.” CLA Journal (2004): 56-182.
Wolfe, Joanna. “‘Ten Minutes for Seven Letters’: Song as Key to Narrative Revision in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Narrative 12.3 (2004): 263-280. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Staley Lib., Millikin U, Decatur, IL. 14 Nov. 2007 http://epnet.com
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