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African influences, 7–8 Allen, Paula Gunn, 149n5, 153n9; on the “Void” and women, 87 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 149n5 Ancestors, 2, 7, 15; Baby Suggs as, 77, 153n6; Beloved as, 153n6; in Beloved, 153n6; in Love, 156n17, 157n23; in Nobel lecture, 146; relation to social death, 149–50n6; in “Rootedness” (Morrison), 18, 30, 153n6 Ansa, Tina McElroy, 8, 151n4 Awkward, Michael, 19, 50, 151n2 Beloved. See Morrison Beloved-type, 1, 19, 38, 69, 156 The Bluest Eye. See Morrison Bouson, J. Brooks, 88, 149n1 Bowers, Maggie Ann: on Beloved as magical realism, 149n4; on history of magical realism, 149n2; on Morrison and magical realism, 6 Brogan, Kathleen, 20, 76, 80, 86; Beloved as memorial, 75; concept of ghost, 12, 73, 152–53n4; women and absence/ invisibility, 12, 20, 92, 94, 149n5; women’s haunted literature, 1, 82 Buse, Peter and Andrew Stott, 10–12 Carpenter, Lynette and Wendy K. Kolmar: on women writers’ ghost stories, 68, 93 Cartwright, Keith, 151n2 Chanady, Amaryll B., 4–5, 7, 149n2, 149n3 Collins, Patricia Hill, 12–13, 128 Creative Hauntology, 81 Crossroads: 124 in Beloved as, 69; in Love, 120; in Paradise, 83, 87 (Paula Gunn Allen), 89 (Krumholz), 95, 99; in Song of Solomon, 39 Davis, Thulani, 115, 116, 121 Demetrakopoulos, Stephanie A., 70, 150n7, 151n2, 151–52n10, 152n13 Derrida, Jacques, 9–12, 14, 65, 66, 75–76, 80–81, 83, 84, 99, 103, 104, 111, 147 Duvall, John N., 19, 28, 150n7, 151n9 Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man, 13, 19; Shadow and Act, 147 Erickson, Daniel, 150n8 Fantastic: connection to magical realism, 4, 149n3; as literary mode, 4–5 Faris, Wendy B., 3; on Beloved as magical realism, 149n4; on history of magical realism, 149n2 Faulkner, William, 69, 155n5 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 153n9, 154n2, 158n2 Gilroy, Paul, 6 Gordon, Avery F., 9, 13–14, 20–21, 27, 124 Gothic, 13, 28, 115, 120 Grewal, Gurleen, 150n7 Griffin, Farah Jasmine, 154–55n4 Griot, 38, 52 Harding, Wendy and Jacky Martin, 150n7 Harris, Trudier, 70, 73, 150n7, 151n2 Haunted house trope, 1; in American literature, 69; in Beloved, 68–73; in Love, 119; in A Mercy, 141, 143; in Song of Solomon, 47 Heinze, Denise, 49, 58, 60, 150n7, 151n9 Higgins, Therese E., 7, 153n8 Historiographic Metafiction, 17, 103 Holloway, Karla F. C., 61, 80, 150n7, 150n1, 151n2, n8, n9, n10, 152n13 Index index hooks, bell, 128 Hutcheon, Linda, 17, 103, 123 Invisibility (also see Ellison and Brogan), 1, 148; African American women and, 13; in The Bluest Eye, 20, 23; and magical realism, 5; in A Mercy, 137; women and, 12, 87, 120 Jazz. See Morrison Jordan, Don and Michael Walsh, 135–36 Kenan, Randall, 8, 151n4 Krumholz, Linda, 73, 84, 88–89, 94, 152n11, 154n14 Living-dead, 8 López, Alfred J., 5–6 Love. See Morrison Magical Realism 3–6; history of, 149n2–3; in Morrison’s work, 6, 149n4; influence on Morrison, 6; Morrison on, 6 Matus, Jill, 150n7, 152n2 Mayberry, Susan Neal, 150n7 Mbalia, Doreatha, 45–46, 150n7, 151n9 Mbiti, Joseph, 7–8 A Mercy. See Morrison Migration, 44, 109, 111–12, 113 Morrison, Toni, Beloved, 1, 2, 6, 16–17, 20, 26, 33, 35, 39, 65–83, 94, 98–101, 102–3, 111, 114, 145, 147; Beloved connected to A Mercy, 131, 136, 138–39, 143; The Bluest Eye, 16, 19–27, 53, 132, 136, 138, 144, 145; Jazz, 11, 16–18, 21, 33, 78, 81, 98, 101–16, 120–21, 123, 129–30, 132, 137, 141, 145, 147; Love, 1, 11, 17–18, 21, 29, 32, 101–3, 105, 109, 115–32, 145; A Mercy, 1, 15, 17–18, 131–45; the Nobel lecture, 145–48; Paradise, 16–17, 20, 29, 31, 33, 35, 39, 52, 63, 65–67, 69, 78, 81–103, 109, 114–15, 129, 132, 140, 145–48; Playing in the Dark, 2, 121; “Rootedness,” 18, 30, 41, 153n6; Song of Solomon, 1, 6, 9, 15–16, 19, 21, 26, 35, 37–53, 64–65, 98, 101, 141, 145, 148; Sula, 16, 19, 27–35, 64, 79, 118, 128, 141; Tar Baby, 1, 6, 16, 21, 37–38, 39, 53–65, 69, 98, 101, 112, 132, 136, 145 Music, 39, 44, 121–22, 123, 156n18; the “blue note” in jazz and blues, 154–55n4; jazz, 104, 154n3; Morrison on, 6, 156n19 NPR, 135, 146 Nobel Prize, 2, 146 O’Reilly, Andrea, 150n7, 155n8 Otten, Terry, 152n12 Page, Philip, 20, 95, 150n7, 153n8, 155n11 Paradise. See Morrison Patterson, Orlando (social death), 149–50n6 Peterson, Christopher...
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