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Morrison & Baldwin

Course Videos

Toni Morrison: Love Is a Metaphor from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Click here for the transcript of the Toni Morrison video above and a link to part 2 of the interview.

Week 1
  • Introduction
  • Discuss:
    • "Letter to My Nephew" - James Baldwin (see link below)
    • "The Creative Process" -  James Baldwin (see link below)
    • How to read A Mercy

Week 2
  • Hour 1 - Discuss Africans in America (video to the left - please watch before class and take notes on relationship between what you learn about indentured servitude and race based slavery in video and its impact on the characters in A Mercy)
  • ​Hour 2 -  Discuss pages 1 - 118 A Mercy
Week 3
  • Hour 1 - Discuss A Mercy pgs 113 to end
  • Hour 2 - Discuss Baldwin's theory on love & slavery

Week 4

  • Discuss Beloved - chapters 1 - 9

Week 5

  • ​Discuss Beloved - chapters 10 - end & Morrison's theory on love






Reading List 

a_mercy_-_toni_morrison-1.pdf
File Size: 734 kb
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letter_to_my_nephew_by_james_baldwin.pdf
File Size: 561 kb
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beloved_by_toni_morrison.pdf
File Size: 1198 kb
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the_creative_process_by_james_baldwin.pdf
File Size: 14 kb
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make′-do`
adj., n., pl. -dos. adj.
1. used as a substitute; makeshift.
n.
2. something makeshift.
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