Toni Morrison Society Sessions at the ALA Conference in Boston, MA

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

***SPECIAL EVENT***
Bench By the Road Bench Placement
Walden Woods, Concord, Massachusetts
Bus will leave Conference Hotel at 1:00PM for Concord,Massachusetts

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Session 2-F, 10:30-11:50 am: Reading Toni Morrison’s Home

Chair: Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, The George Washington University

1. “Home as a Home,” Yvonne Atkinson, Mt. San Jacinto College

2. “A Locke to Fit the Key: Of Language and Property in Morrison’s Home,” Charles Markley, United States Military Academy

3. “Severed Limbs, The Return of the Repressed, and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Home,” Jean Wyatt, Occidental College

4. “Deconstructing the House and Creating a Home: Parallel Journeys of Self Discovery and Recovery in Toni Morrison’s Home," Michelle Henry, Dallas Baptist University

Session 5-K, 3-4:30 pm: Business Meeting: The Toni Morrison Society

Session 6-F, 4:30-5:50 pm: Toni Morrison, The Land, and the Environment
Chair: Yvonne Atkinson, Mt. San Jacinto College

1.“‘And in the darksome womb of fruitful nature dive’: Unmapping the Puritan ‘Wilderness’ in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy,” Sharon Jessee, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

2. "Contentions in the Houses of Chloe: Morrison’s Critique of the Euro-American War Against Nature and Native Peoples,” Walter Hesford, The University of Idaho

3.“Interconnected from The Bottom down: Ecological Thought and Morrison’s Sula,” Rebekah Taylor, Kent State University

Friday, May 24, 2013

Poetry Reading by Michael Harper and Reception

upcoming

Join the Society Donate to Annual Fund Place a Bench by the Road

Please Join us on Facebook

of interest