[
Wesleyan Home Page
] [
WesMaps Home Page
] [
WesMaps Archive
]
[
Course Search
] [
Course Search by CID
]
Academic Year 2000/2001
Toni Morrison
COL 287 FA
Toni Morrison's lyrical style and vibrant imagination have made her one of the most engaging contemporary novelists. She is also one of the most thought-provoking, inviting her readers to join her in exploring the
formation, deformation, and
transformation of human subjects in the crucibles of race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, caste and class. This seminar focuses on a close reading of Morrison's six published novels: THE BLUEST EYE, SULA, SONG OF
SOLOMON, TAR BABY, BELOVED, and JAZZ.
It will be supplemented and informed by essays and interviews of the author, by selective readings of significant predecessors, by historical documents and other contextualizing materials, and by consideration of
relevant critical theories.
MAJOR READINGS
Toni Morrison, THE BLUEST EYE (novel), SULA (novel), SONG OF SOLOMON (novel), TAR BABY (novel), BELOVED (novel) JAZZ (novel) Toni Morrison, "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," PLAYING IN THE DARK, and THE NOBEL LECTURE IN
LITERATURE, 1993 (lectures and
essays) Danille Taylor-Guthrie, ed., CONVERSATIONS WITH TONI MORRISON (interviews) Harriet A. Jacobs, INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL, and other slave narratives: selections Middleton Harris, et al., eds.,
THE BLACK BOOK: selections Zora Nea
le Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Hazel Carby, Kimberly Bentson: historical and theoretical essays Patricia Hill Collins, BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Thoughtful preparation, regular attendance and participation in class discussion, two interpretive essays and one final paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
Links to Web Resources For This Course.
Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
Contact
wesmaps@wesleyan.edu
to submit comments or suggestions. Please include a url, course title, faculty name or other page reference in your email
Copyright Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 06459
