Acknowledgements
Introduction
The tripled plot and center of Sula / Maureen T. Reddy
Who cares? Women-centered psychology in Sula / Diane Gillespie and Missy Dehn Kubitschek
Toni Morrison's Sula: a black woman's epic / Karen F. Stein
The telling of Beloved / Eusebio L. Rodrigues
Toni Morrison's Beloved: history, "rememory," and a "clamor for a kiss" / Caroline Rody
Belonging and freedom in Morrison's Beloved: slavery, sentimentality, and the evolution of consciousness / Howard W. Fulweiler
"will the parts hold?": the journey toward a coherent self in Beloved / Betty Jane Powell
The bonds of love and the boundaries of self in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Barbara Schapiro
"I love to tell the story": biblical revisions in Beloved / Carolyn A. Mitchell
Mixed genres and the logic of slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Carl D. Malmgren
Narrative control and subjectivity: dismantling safety in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Andrew Schopp
Giving body to the word: the maternal symbolic in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Jean Wyatt
Pain and the unmaking of self in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Kristin Boudreau
Missing peace in Toni Morrison's Sula and Beloved / Rachel C. Lee
The force outside/the force inside: mother-love and regenerative spaces in Sula and Beloved / Laurie Vickroy
A blessing and a burden: the relation to the past in Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved / Deborah Guth
Sula and Beloved: images of Cain in the novels of Toni Morrison / Carolyn M. Jones
Selected bibliography
Contributors
Index.