| Description |
viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Ingersoll lecture ; 2012
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Ingersoll lecture ; 2012.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Toni Morrison's religion -- "Goodness : Altruism and the literary imagination," Ingersoll Lecture 2012 / Toni Morrison -- I. Significant landscapes and sacred places. Haunted by slavery / Walter Johnson ; Ọmọ Òpìtańdìran, an Africanist griot : Toni Morrison and African epistemology, myths, and literary culture / Jacob K. Olupona ; Structures of stone and rings of light : spirited landscapes in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Tiya Miles -- II. Putting goodness onstage. Evocations of intimacies : comments on Toni Morrison's Home / Charles H. Long ; Morrison's pietàs as participatory loss and love / Mara Willard ; The ghost of Love and goodness / Davíd Carrasco ; Demons and dominion : possession and dispossession in Toni Morrison's A mercy / Matthew Potts -- III. Giving goodness a voice. Ministry in Paradise / Stephanie Paulsell ; Luminous darkness : Africanist presence and the American soul / Jonathan L. Walton ; Going backstage : Soaphead Church and the (religious) problem of goodness in The bluest eye / Biko Mandela Gray ; Unsung no more : Pilate's mercy! Eulogy in Song of Solomon / Gerald "Jay" Williams ; Quiet, as it's kept and lovingly disrupted by Baby Suggs, Holy : on the volume of goodness in Beloved / Josslyn Luckett -- Writing goodness and mercy : a 2017 interview with Toni Morrison. |
| Subject |
Morrison, Toni -- History and criticism.
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Morrison, Toni -- Religion.
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Morrison, Toni -- Ethics.
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Good and evil in literature.
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| Added Author |
Morrison, Toni.
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Carrasco, David, editor.
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Paulsell, Stephanie, 1962- editor.
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Willard, Mara, editor.
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| Added Title |
Harvard Divinity School's 95th Ingersoll Lecture : with essays on Morrison's moral and religious vision |
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With essays on Morrison's moral and religious vision |
| ISBN |
9780813943626 hardcover |
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0813943620 hardcover |
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