Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: aesthetics and the African American novel
  • "Aesthetic" and "rapport" in Toni Morrison's Sula / Barbara Johnson
  • Language that bears witness: the Black English oral tradition in the works of Toni Morrison / Yvonne Atkinson
  • Towards the limits of mystery: the grotesque in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Susan Corey
  • From the sublime to the beautiful: the aesthetic progression of Toni Morrison / Marc C. Conner
  • Toni Morrison's beauty formula / Katherine Stern
  • Contentions in the House of Chloe: Morrison's Tar baby / Maria DiBattisa
  • Sensations of loss / Michael Wood
  • Meditations on a bird in the hand: ethics and aesthetics in a parable by Toni Morrison / Cheryl Lester.