Carmen Gillespie - Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing

I offer my most sincere gratitude to each of the contributors to Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing. I was overwhelmed at the response we received to the initial invitation to gather in this space to reflect upon Toni Morrisons forty and more years of artful expression, and I remain awed by the generosity, grace, and gift of each contributor.

Books do not produce themselves and there were many involved in the creation of this one. James Peterson was an important agent at the beginning of this project, and I acknowledge and am grateful for his help. Particular thanks goes to Nina Forsberg for her assistance, as well as to Kate Parker whose insights, creativity, and syntheses gave the book an original and dynamic structure. Thank you to Patrick Henry for his assistance with the initial assemblage. For their reading, research, and technical support, my appreciation to Catherine Joos, Heather Hennigan, Rebecca Willoughby, and Karen Holstead.

I am appreciative of Greg Clingham, director of the Bucknell University Press, for his belief in this project. Thanks to Bucknell University for their support of the Griot Institute for Africana Studies and of the Griot Book Project Series. I express particular gratitude for the artistry of Adrienne Beaver, who designed the Griot Book Project insignia, as well as the book and the template for the Griot Project Book Series.

To Lucille Fultz, Maryemma Graham, and Susan Mayberry I am indebted for your support and for your reaching out to console and encourage. Lucie, quiet as kept.

Harry, you are my sanctuary.

Works by Toni Morrison
(Editions cited in this volume listed in the order cited in this volume)

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye . New York: Random House-Knopf, 1970 and 1994. Reprint, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1993.

. What the Black Woman Thinks About Womens Lib. New York Times Magazine . August 22, 1971, 14, 63.

. Sula . New York: Random House-Knopf, 1973.

. Song of Solomon . New York: Random House-Knopf, 1977.

. Tar Baby . New York: Random House-Knopf, 1981.

. Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation. In Black Women Writers (1950-1980) , edited by Marie Evans. New York: Random House-Doubleday, 1984.

. Beloved . New York: Random House-Knopf, 1987.

. James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language. New York Times Book Review . December 20, 1987, 27.

. Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature. Michigan Quarterly Review 28, no. 1 (1989): 1-34.

. Jazz . New York: Random House-Knopf, 1992.

. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination . New York: Random House-Vintage, 1992.

. Lecture and Speech of Acceptance, Upon the Award of the Novel Prize for Literature, Delivered in Stockholm on the Seventh of December, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Three. New York: Random House-Knopf, 1994.

. Home. In The House That Race Built , edited by Wahneema Lubiano, 3-12. New York: Pantheon, 1997.

. Paradise . New York: Random House-Knopf, 1998. Reprint, New York: Penguin-Plume, 1999.

. The Dancing Mind . New York: Random House-Knopf, 2003.

. Love . New York: Random House-Knopf, 2003.

. Presentation for Roundtable on the Future of the Humanities in a Fragmented World. PMLA 120, no. 3 (2005): 715-17.

. tranger chez soir. [French translation of The Foreigners Home lecture.] Toni Morrison, invite au Louvre . Translated by Anne Wicke. Edited by Christian Bourgois, 13-26. Paris: Louvre Museum, 2006.

. The Foreigners Home. Opening Lecture for the special exhibition. Louvre Museum, Paris, 6 November 2006.

. What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction , edited by Carolyn C. Denard. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.

. How Can Values Be Taught in the University? In What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction , edited by Carolyn C. Denard, 191-7. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.

. Speaking of Reynolds Price. In What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction , edited by Carolyn C. Denard, 95-99. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.

. A Mercy . New York: Random House-Knopf, 2008.

. A Mercy . New York: Vintage International, 2009.

. A Bench by the Road: Beloved . In Toni Morrison: Conversations , edited by Carolyn C. Denard, 44-50. Literary Conversations Series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.

. The Reader as Artist. Oprah Magazine. Harpo Productions (July 2006). http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Toni-Morrison-on-Reading (accessed March 2011).

. Home. New York: Knopf, 2012.

Naylor, Gloria, and Toni Morrison. A Conversation. Southern Review 21, no. 3 (1985): 567-93.

Aguiar, Sarah Appleton. Passing On Death: Stealing Life in Toni Morrisons Paradise . African American Review 38, no. 2 (2004): 51319.

Alhadeff, Albert. The Raft of the Medusa: Gricault, Art, and Race . Munich: Prestel, 2002. Aneja, Anu. Of Masks and Masquerades: Performing the Collegial Dance. symplok 13, no. 1-2 (2005): 144-51.

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . New York: Random House, 1970.

Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition: A Study of the Central Dilemmas Facing Modern Man . Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1959.

Aristotle. Poetics . Translated by S. H. Butcher. Toronto: Dover, 1997.

Awkward, Michael. Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Womens Novels . New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Bachelard, Gaston. Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement . Translated by Edith R. Farrell and C. Frederick Farrell. Dallas, TX: Dallas Institute, 1988.

. Earth and Reveries of Will . Translated by Kenneth Haltman. Dallas, TX: Dallas Institute, 2002.

Bahktin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World. Translated by Hlne Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Baker, Houston A., Jr., and June Jordan, et al. Black Writers in Praise of Toni Morrison. New Y ork Times Book Review . January 24, 1988, 36.

Barfield, Owen. Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

Barthes, Roland. S/Z . Translated by Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974.

Basow, Susan A. Student Evaluations: The Role of Gender Bias and Teaching Styles, In Career strategies for Women in Academe: Arming Athena , edited by L. H. Collins, J. C. Chrisler, and K. Quina, 135-56. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998.

Bell, Bernard W. The Contemporary Afro-American Novel: Its Folk Traditions and Modern Literary Branches . Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.

Bercovitch, Sacvan. The A-Politics of Ambiguity on The Scarlet Letter . New Literary History 19, no. 3 (1988): 629-54.

. Hawthornes A-Morality of Compromise. Special Issue: American Reconstructed 1840-1940. Representations 24 (Autumn1988): 1-27.

Bishop, Peter. The Greening of Psychology : The Vegetable World in Myth, Dream, and Healing . Dallas, TX: Spring Publications, 1990.

Blackburn, Sara. Review of Sula. You Still Cant Go Home Again. New York Times Book Review . December 30, 1973, 3.

Braxton, Joanne, and Andree Nicola McLaughlin, eds. Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Briggs, H. E., A. C. Briggs, and J. D. Leary. Promoting Culturally Competent Systems of Care Through Statewide Family Advocacy Networks. Best Practices in Mental Health 1, no. 2 (2005): 7799.