HUM 103 assignment for August 21

Write a brief characterization of the views of each of the following critics. Include:

 

Critics' Conversations about Song of Solomon: a selection of excerpts.

Keith E. Byerman, "Beyond Realism: The Fictions of Toni Morrison," in Toni Morrison, ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers, New York and Philadelphia, 1990, 55-84.

Melvin Dixon, "Like an Eagle in the Air: Toni Morrison," in Toni Morrison, ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers, New York and Philadelphia, 1990, 115-142.

Denise Heinze, The Dilemma of "Double-Consciousness": Toni Morrison's Novels, University of Georgia Press, 1993.

Wahneema Lubiano, "The Postmodernist Rag: Political Identity and the Vernacular in Song of Solomon," in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon," in New Essays on Song of Solomon, ed. Valerie Smith, Cambridge University Press 1995, 93-116.

Joyce Irene Middleton, "From Orality to Literacy: Oral Memory in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon," in New Essays on Song of Solomon ed. Valerie Smith, Cambridge University Press 1995, 19-40.

Marilyn Sanders Mobley, "Call and Response: Voice, Community and Dialogic Structures in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon," in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon," in New Essays on Song of Solomon, ed. Valerie Smith, Cambridge University Press 1995, 41-68.

Barbara Hill Rigney, The Voices of Toni Morrison, Ohio State University Press: Columbus, 1991.

Valerie Smith, "Introduction,", New Essays on Song of Solomon, ed. Valerie Smith, Cambridge University Press 1995, 1-18.