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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Goldstein-Shirley, David. "'The Music's Secret Drive': Race and Response in the Work of Toni Morrison," Comparative Culture Program, University of California, Irvine, June 1997.
Critics note Morrison’s ability to involve readers in her fiction, but largely neglect to explicate how and why. I analyze the textual “gaps” that discomfort readers and entangle them in her texts, thus involving them in her mission of deconstructing “race” and battling racism. I examine sixty-seven readers’ responses to Morrison’s only short story, “Recitatif.” I also examine the rhetorical tactics for enlisting readers in a critique of “white” standards of beauty and value in The Bluest Eye and Beloved’s reclamation of a history that readers must fact to enable the nation to heal from slavery’s lasting wounds.
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