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Talking Back to Schoolteacher: Morrison's Confrontation with Hawthorne in Beloved
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It would require a pretty good scholar in arithmetic to tell how many stripes he had inflicted, and how many birchrods he had worn out, during all that time, in his fatherly tenderness for his pupils.Abstract:
It would require a pretty good scholar in arithmetic to tell how many stripes he had inflicted, and how many birchrods he had worn out, during all that time, in his fatherly tenderness for his pupils. . . . Moreover, he had written a Latin Accidence, which was used in schools more than half a century after his death; so that the good old man, even in his grave, was still the cause of trouble and stripes to idle schoolboys. —Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Whole History of Grandfather's Chairread more
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.
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TL;DR: Morrison as mentioned in this paper argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text.
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
TL;DR: Morrison as discussed by the authors argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology
TL;DR: Black women have long recognized the special circumstances of our lives in the United States: the commonalities that we share with all women, as well as the bonds that connect us to the men of our race as discussed by the authors.
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The closing of the American mind: how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students
TL;DR: The closing of the American mind as mentioned in this paper is one of the best-sellers in history, and Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today, and it has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
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Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860
TL;DR: In this article, the texts the author examines are viewed not as works of art embodying enduring themes, but as attempts to redefine the social order in literature and literary study.