Toni Morrison expands St. Paul’s vision of love to include erotic love.
Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” has advice for Obama in the fiscal cliff confrontation: Leap!
It proved easy to apply the election to Toni Morrison and Jane Austen in my classes.
“Song of Solomon,” one of Obama’s favorite books, yield important insights into him and his African American supporters.
Perhaps some of the conservative antipathy to Obama is because he is seen as just taking over when he promised to work for social justice.
I’ve had fun discussing the reading of Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas over the last couple of days, and while I’ve come up dry on further posts about the Supreme Court and literature, it has given me the idea of periodically dipping into reading stories of other political figures. I’ll start a list here, beginning [...]
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I can’t recommend enough the value of writing your reading history. It will reveal to you sides of yourself you didn’t know you had.
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As I look back over this past week of entries, what conclusions can I draw? First, that literature can serve the cause of race relations in this country. The friendship between Huck and Jim spurred my dreams of black-white friendship when I was a child being raised in segregated schools in the south, and it [...]
I think it was 13 years ago or so when I read in our county newspaper that a high school student was objecting to a book he had been assigned to read in an Advanced Placement English class. The book was Toni’s Morrison’s Pulitzer-winning Song of Solomon, a book on the Advanced Placement list, and [...]
