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DISSERTATIONS

  1. Adamcyk, Valerie Therese. "Writing the Western Home: Domestic Ideology in Women's Literature of the American West." State U of New York at Binghamton, 2001.

  2. Adams, Helane Denise. "‘Powers from the Deep’: Ethnic Cultural Memory and Wholeness Theory in Fiction by African American and Chicana Women." U of Washington, 2002.

  3. Adrian, Stephanie McClure. "The Art Songs of Andre Previn with Lyrics by Toni Morrison: ‘Honey and Rue’ and Four Songs for Soprano, Cello and Piano, a Performance Perspective." The Ohio State U, 2001.

  4. Agnew, Jennifer Marie. "‘Trying to Name the Unspeakable’: Narrating Identity in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Gothic Fiction." Saint Louis U, 2001.

  5. Ahmed Deyab, Mohamed. "Toni Morrison's Womanist Discourse in The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1974), and Beloved (1987): Analytical and Computational Study." Southern Illinois U at Carbondale, 2004.

  6. Argento de Arguelles, Lydia. "Dos Novelistas Americanas En Busca Del Pasado Perdido." U of Missouri - Columbia, 2004.

  7. Baldanzi, Jessica Hays. "Eugenic Fictions: Imagining the Reproduction of the Twentieth-Century American Citizen." Indiana U, 2003.

  8. Bartlett, Sally A. "The Female Phantasmagoria: Fantasy and Third Force Psychology in Four Feminist Fictions." U of South Florida, 2004.

  9. Benet-Goodman, Helen Charisse. "Forgiving Friends: Feminist Ethics and Fiction by Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood." U of Virginia, 2004.

  10. Berger, Aimee Elizabeth. "Dark Houses: Navigating Space and Negotiating Silence in the Novels of Faulkner, Warren and Morrison." U of North Texas, 2000.

  11. Bickford, Leslie Walker. "Encountering the Real: A Lacanian Reading of Faulkner and Morrison." U of South Carolina, 2005.

  12. Boan, Rudee Devon. "The Black ‘I’: Author and Audience in African American Literature." U of South Carolina, 2000.

  13. Bradley, Adam Francis. "Liberation of Perception: Evil's Emergence in 20th Century African American Fiction." Harvard U, 2003.

  14. Brown, Caroline Ann. "‘Uses of the Erotic’: The Non-Hermeneutic as a Site of Aesthetic, Political, and Personal Reclamation in Black Women's Novels." Stanford U, 2000.

  15. Brown, Cecily Francesca. "People-as-Garbage: A Metaphor we Live by. Storytelling as Composting in Six Novels: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, and Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina." U of Minnesota, 2000.

  16. Burley, Stephanie Carol. "Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance." U of Maryland, College Park, 2003.

  17. Bussie, Jacqueline Aileen. "Laughter, Language, and Hope: Risibility as Resistance in Elie Wiesel's Gates of the Forest, Shusaku Endo's Silence, and Toni Morrison's Beloved." U of Virginia, 2003.

  18. Butts, Tracy Renee. "Boys in the Mother 'Hood’: Literary Representations of Black Mother-Son Relationships in the Works of Ernest J. Gaines and Toni Morrison." U of Georgia, 2001.

  19. Carr, Joi. "Encountering Texts: The Multicultural Theatre Project and ‘Minority’ Literature, an Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching and Learning." Claremont Graduate U, 2005.

  20. Chandra, Giti. "A Genre of our Time: Women's Narratives of Violence and Collective Identities." Rutgers the State U of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2001.

  21. Chantharothai, Sasitorn. "Transforming Self, Family, and Community: Women in the Novels of Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison, and Amy Tan." Indiana U of Pennsylvania, 2003.

  22. Chen, Shu-Ling. "Mothers and Daughters in Morrison, Tan, Marshall, and Kincaid." U of Washington, 2000.

  23. Cho, Sungran. "Mourning Work: Historical Trauma and the Women of the Cross(Road). Readings in Modern Women Writers of the Diaspora." State U of New York at Buffalo, 2003.

  24. Choucair, Mona Mae. "‘Whose Culture are You Bearing?’: Searching for Self in Toni Morrison's Novels." Baylor U, 2000.

  25. Christiansen, Anna Marie. "Passing as the ‘Tragic’ Mulatto: Constructions of Hybridity in Toni Morrison's Novels, and, Essentialism and Degrees of Diversity: Examining the Politics of Authority in the Literature Classroom." Idaho State U, 2003.

  26. Chroninger, Betty J. "From Strange Fruit to Fruitful Kitchens: The Space of the Kitchen in Toni Morrison's Novels." U of South Florida, 2005.

  27. Clewell, Tammy. "In Modernism's Wake: The Reinvention of Mourning in Woolf, Faulkner, Winterson, and Morrison." Florida State U, 2000.

  28. Cohen, Samuel. "The Novel of Retrospect in American Fiction of the 1990s: Pynchon, Morrison, Roth." City U of New York, 2003.

  29. Cooper, Janet L. "Tools for Contesting Stereotypes and Reconstructing the Identities of Non-White Ethnic Women." Pennsylvania State U, 2000.

  30. Coulibaly, Daouda. "The Landscape of Traumatic Memory: Illness as a Metaphor in Native and African American Literatures." State U of New York at Stony Brook, 2005.

  31. Crawford, Ilene Whitney. "Out of this Heart of Darkness toward a New Rhetoric of Emotion." U of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2000.

  32. Davenport, Carol Ann. "Giving them their Propers: Critical Autobiography as Methodology for Teaching about African American Women." Pennsylvania State U, 2000.

  33. Davis, Lea. ""I Once was Trash but God Recycled Me": Glossolalia in the Works of Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, and Carolyn Chute." U of Alabama, 2004.

  34. Dean, Laramee. "Story's Daring Spin into Self: Feminine Emancipation and Transformation through Myth and Epic." Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2002.

  35. Di Prete, Laura. "‘Foreign Bodies’: Trauma, Corporeality, and Textuality in Contemporary American Culture." U of South Carolina, 2003.

  36. Dixon, Diane Marie. "Maternal Matrix: Ethical and Spiritual Dynamics of Mothers' Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature." Indiana U of Pennsylvania, 2000.

  37. Dopico, Ana Maria. "‘A Bitter Devotion to Home’: Southern Questions and Family Romances in the Literature of the Americas." Columbia U, 2000.

  38. Doughty, Mechelle Shan. "Deconstruction, Metafiction, Fairy Tales, and Feminism: A Comparative Study of Rosa Montero's Te Tratare Como a Una Reina and Bella y Oscura and Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and The Bluest Eye." U of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2004.

  39. Durrant, Samuel Robin. "‘some kind of tomorrow’: Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning." Queen's U at Kingston (Canada), 2000.

  40. Dzregah, Augustina Edem. "The Missing Factor: Explorations of Masculinities in the Works of Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joyce Carol Oates." Indiana U of Pennsylvania, 2002.

  41. Eaton, Kalenda Clark. "Talking 'Bout a Revolution: Afro-Politico Womanism and the Ideological Transformation of the Black Community, 1965-1980." The Ohio State U, 2004.

  42. Ely, Elizabeth Ann. "Promise in the Garden: An Exploration of Edenic and Apocalyptic Imagery in Morrison's Beloved, Garcia Marquez's Cien Años De Soledad, and Ubaldo Ribeiro's O Sorriso do Lagarto." U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

  43. Evans, Shari Michelle. "Navigating Exile: Contemporary Women Writers Discover an Ethics of Home." U of New Mexico, 2005.

  44. Eze, Chielozona E. "Literature as an Ethical Challenge: Alain Locke and the Responsibility of the Negro Artist." Purdue U, 2003.

  45. Fagel, Brian David. "Spirit Lessons: Post-Nuclear American Fiction and the Spirituality of Survival." U of Chicago, 2000.

  46. Foster-Singletary, Tikenya S. "Revolutionary Romances: Romantic Love in African American Literature by Women." Vanderbilt U, 2004.

  47. Fulmer, Jacqueline Marie. "Strategies of Indirection in African American and Irish Contemporary Fiction: Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and Mary Lavin to Eilis Ni Dhuibhne." U of California, Berkeley, 2002.

  48. Gauthier, Marni Jeanine. "Narrating America: Myth, History, and Countermemory in the Modern Nation." U of Colorado at Boulder, 2001.

  49. Ghosh, Nabanita. "The Unbreakable Bond: Absent/Present Mothers and Daughters in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan and Daphne Merkin." State U of New York at Binghamton, 2000.

  50. Girard, Linda A. "‘I am telling’: The Discourse of Incest and Miscegenation in William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and Absalom, Absalom! and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon." Kent State U, 2003.

  51. Gistrak, Jennifer Ellen. "Reading Mothers and Daughters: A Psychological, Historical, and Literary Analysis." Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, 2000.

  52. Good, Sally A. "Women, Violence, and Twentieth-Century American Literature." Texas Tech U, 2003.

  53. Grandt, Jurgen Ernst. "Writing the Blackness of Blackness: African American Narrative and the Problem of Cultural Authenticity." U of Georgia, 2000.

  54. Grant-Boyd, Joan Hope. "Fighting their Battles, Claiming their Victories: Three Exemplars of African-American Female Heroism." City U of New York, 2000.

  55. Harb, Sirene Hussein. "Metissage, Memory and Resistance in Postcolonial Narratives." Purdue U, 2002.

  56. Henson, Kristin Karr. "Beyond the Sound Barrier: Popular Music and the Dissolution of Binary Logic in Twentieth Century Novels." New York U, 2000.

  57. Higgins, Therese E. "Religiosity, Cosmology, and Folklore: The African Influence in the Novels of Toni Morrison." Kent State U, 2000.

  58. Hobson, Janell Coreen. "Beauty, Difference, and the Hottentot Venus: Black Feminist Revisions in Performance and Aesthetics, 1810 to the Present." Emory U, 2001.

  59. Hogan, Monika I. "Touching Whiteness: Race, Grief, and Ethical Contact in Contemporary United States Ethnic Novel." U of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

  60. Hong, Kyungwon. "The Histories of the Propertyless: The Literatures of United States Women of Color." U of California, San Diego, 2000.

  61. Horton, Lorena Jean. "Psychological Intersexuals: Gender in the Novels of Toni Morrison." Rice U, 2001.

  62. Hritz, Jennifer Lynn. "See Jane Cry: Rape and Familial Fragmentation in Selected Contemporary American Novels." Texas Christian U, 2000.

  63. Hubbard, Mary Miller. "‘Redemption Draweth Nigh’: Biblical Intertextuality in the Novels of Toni Morrison." U of Arkansas, 2000.

  64. Hwangbo, Kyeong. "Trauma, Narrative, and the Marginal Self in Selected Contemporary American Novels." U of Florida, 2004.

  65. Ikard, David Harold. "Calming the Angry Storm: A Black Male Feminist Reading of Four Twentieth-Century Black Authors." U of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002.

  66. Ivey, Adriane Louise. "Rewriting Christianity: African American Women Writers and the Bible." U of Oregon, 2000.

  67. Jackson, Robert Andrew. "American Regional Theory: Toward a Theory of the Region in the United States and its Roles in the Production of American Literature and Culture." New York U, 2001.

  68. Jackson, Shelley Marie. "Writing Whiteness: Contemporary Southern Literature in Black and White." U of Maryland College Park, 2000.

  69. Jacobson, Kristin J. "Domestic Geographies: Neo-Domestic American Fiction." Pennsylvania State U, 2004.

  70. Jenkins, Candice Marie. "Cultural Infidels: Intimate Betrayal and the Bonds of Race." Duke U, 2001.

  71. Kella, Elizabeth Ann. "Beloved Communities: Solidarity and Difference in Fiction by Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Joy Kogawa." Uppsala U (Sweden), 2000.

  72. Kelly, Marian Herstein. "‘the distance of proximity’: James Joyce's and Toni Morrison's Re-Envisioning of the Readerly Space." Tulane U, 2005.

  73. Kelly, Sheila C. "Representing Resistance: Women's Novels of the Americas and Human Rights." Loyola U of Chicago, 2003.

  74. Kim, Karen Kyyung. "Traumatic Figures: The Inscription of World War in Mrs. Dalloway, Sula, The Night Porter, and Hiroshima, Mon Amour." U of California, Santa Cruz, 2001.

  75. Kim, Miehyeon. "Finding Mothers: Reconstruction of African American Motherhood, Family, Community, and History in Toni Morrison's Fiction." State U of New York at Albany, 2003.

  76. Knapper, Traci Marvelle. "Paradise as Paradigm: Exploring the Critical Geography of Race and Gender in the Novels of Toni Morrison." U of Toledo, 2002.

  77. Kosnik, Kristin Costello. "The Alien in our Nation: Complicating Issues of ‘Passing’ and Miscegenation in the American Narrative." Columbia U, 2001.

  78. Kremins, Kathleen A. "An Ethics of Reading: The Broken Beauties of Toni Morrison, Nawal El Saadawi, and Arundhati Roy." Drew U, 2005.

  79. Kristensen, Randi Gray. "Rights of Passage: A Cross-Cultural Study of Maroon Novels by Black Women." Louisiana State U, 2000.

  80. Kuo, Michael F. "Crossing the Line: Political Poetry in 20th-Century America." Indiana U of Pennsylvania, 2000.

  81. Lee, Myungho. "America and the Tasks of Mourning: William Faulkner's and Toni Morrison's Works of Grieving." State U of New York at Buffalo, 2001.

  82. Luszczynska, Anna Maria. "The Event of Community: Jean-Luc Nancy, Toni Morrison, and Sandra Cisneros." State U of New York at Buffalo, 2004.

  83. MacArthur, Kathleen Laura. "The Things We Carry: Trauma and the Aesthetic in the Contemporary United States Novel." George Washington U, 2005.

  84. Maddison, Bula. "The Word in Dialogue: Biblical Allusion and Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel." Graduate Theological Union, 2005.

  85. Madison, Eunice Kudla. "The Romantic Hero in a Postmodern World: American Culture and Moral Responsibility in the Fictions of Morrison, Naylor and Pynchon." Purdue U, 2004.

  86. Marks, Kathleen Kelly. "Seeds of Memory: The Apotropaic in Toni Morrison's Beloved." U of Dallas, 2000.

  87. Martin, Charles David. "‘a better skin’: The White Negro in American Literature from Thomas Jefferson to Toni Morrison." Florida State U, 2000.

  88. McClenagan, Cindy Marlow. "The Postmodern End for the Violent Victorian Female." Texas Tech U, 2002.

  89. Meier, Laura Elizabeth. "Fault Lines: Multicultural American Women Writers' Subversive Responses to Divisions." State U of New York at Binghamton, 2001.

  90. Melancon, Trimiko C. "Disrupting Dissemblance: Transgressive Black Women as Politics of Counter-Representation in African American Women's Fiction." U of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

  91. Michlitsch, Gretchen J. "Expressing Milk: Representing Breastfeeding in Contemporary American Literature." U of Wisconsin - Madison, 2005.

  92. Miller, Matthew L. "Literary Witnessing: Working through Trauma in Toni Morrison, Nuruddin Farah, Wilson Harris, and Chang-Rae Lee." U of South Carolina, 2005.

  93. Miyamoto, Keiko. "Thinking through Sexual Difference: Toni Morrison's Love Trilogy." State U of New York at Buffalo, 2005.

  94. Moe, Carol Noreen. "Cross-Cultural Intervention in Twentieth Century American Literary Theory: Another Look and Dictee, The Bonesetter's Daughter, Dreaming in Cuban, So Far from God, and Song of Solomon." U of California, Riverside, 2004.

  95. Neighbors, James Robert. "‘all necks are on the line’: Representing History in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature." U of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002.

  96. Noel, Deborah Ann. "The Rhetoric of Authority and the Death Metaphor." U of Georgia, 2003.

  97. Noh, Jongjin. "(Re)Memorying the Past: The Function of Memory in Three Neo-Slave Narratives by Black Women Writers." Miami U, 2004.

  98. Norton, Furaha DeMar. "On Trauma, Self-Knowledge, and Resilience: History and the Ethics of Selfhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise." Cornell U, 2002.

  99. Oforlea, Aaron Ngozi. "Discursive Divide: (Re)Covering African American Male Subjectivity in the Works of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison." The Ohio State U, 2005.

  100. Okonkwo, Christopher Ndubuisi. "The Spirit-Child as Idiom: Reading Ogbanje Dialogic as a Platform of Conversation among Four Black Women's Novels." Florida State U, 2001.

  101. Pascarelli, Laura E. "John Winthrop's ‘Modell of Christian Charitie’ and Configurations of the Puritan American Covenant." Claremont Graduate U, 2005.

  102. Peterson, Christopher Michael. "Kindred Specters: Mourning, Ethics, and ‘Social Death’" U of Southern California, 2002.

  103. Petrites, Cynthia Denise. "A Community of Readers: Models of Reading in Joyce, Morrison and Garcia Marquez." Princeton U, 2002.

  104. Quinlan, Eileen A. "Healing Connections: Feminist/ Womanist Ethical Reflection on Community in the Fiction of Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich." Loyola U of Chicago, 2000.

  105. Quirk, Kevin Michael. ""that's what books can do": Difference, Therapy, and Value in Middlebrow Literature." U of Iowa, 2003.

  106. Rakotovao. "Poetics of Life-Force and Survival as Resistance: An Archetypal Approach to Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'Un Retour Au Pays Natal and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon." Howard U, 2000.

  107. Reid, Theresa Ann. "An Ethical Analysis of Discourse on Child Sexual Abuse." U of Chicago, 2001.

  108. Reneau, Ingrid Marion. "Dancing the ‘Clearing’ in African Diaspora Narratives." Rutgers, State U of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2000.

  109. Restovich, Catherine R. "Negotiating Identity in the Waters of the Atlantic: The Middle Passage Trope in African-American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing." Saint Louis U, 2000.

  110. Ridout, Alice Rachel. ""to be and not to be": The Politics of Parody in Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Doris Lessing." U of Toronto (Canada), 2004.

  111. Rodriguez, Denise Gema. "Space, Form, and Tradition: Recontextualizing the Contemporary Ethnic-American Novel." City U of New York, 2001.

  112. Romero, Channette M. "Spiritual Resistance: Religion, Race, and Nation in Ethnic American Women's Fiction." Rutgers, State U of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2004.

  113. Russell, Danielle. "Between the Angle and the Curve: Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Selected Writings by Willa Cather and Toni Morrison." York U (Canada), 2003.

  114. Sample, Mark L. "Radicalizing Consumption in the Fiction of Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison." U of Pennsylvania, 2004.

  115. Sanko, Dorothy Ann. "Romancing the Mother: A Twentieth-Century Tale." U of Colorado at Boulder, 2002.

  116. Schmitz, Gabriele. "Transgressing Motherhood: Contesting Patriarchal Constructions of Infanticide." U of California, Davis, 2003.

  117. Schur, Richard Lee. "Rites of Rhetoric: Toni Morrison, Luis Valdez, and Critical Race Theory." U of Kansas, 2000.

  118. Senecal, Nikole Alexa. "(Mis)Representations of Violent Women." U of Southern California, 2002.

  119. Shaffer, C. Lynn. "Scrapbook." U of Cincinnati, 2001.

  120. Shen, Sigmund. "Dreaming America, Surviving Ambivalence." New York U, 2004.

  121. Silbergleid, Robin Paula. "Narratives of Loss, Loss of Narrative: Crises of Representation in Twentieth-Century Fiction." Indiana U, 2001.

  122. Singley, Allison Chandler. "‘Spurious Delusions of Reward’: Innocence and United States Identity in the Caribbean of William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Russell Banks." U of Connecticut, 2004.

  123. Solomon, Asali Najuma. "Dark Maternal Specters in Twentieth-Century African American Literature." U of California, Berkeley, 2002.

  124. Sonenberg, Nina Elise. "Earning Her Keep: Women and Money in the Post-Colonial Novel." Rutgers, State U of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2000.

  125. Steinberg, Marc Howard. "Disremembered and Unaccounted for: Contemporary African-American Novels and the Absences of History." Kent State U, 2002.

  126. Stewart, F. Gregory. "[En]Countering the Confederate Dead: Toni Morrison's Corrective to the Fugitive Aesthetic." U of Texas at Dallas, 2004.

  127. Stillman-Webb, Natalie. "Re-Mapping Postmodernism: Contemporary American Women's Fiction." Purdue U, 2000.

  128. Stone, Patricia. "Chronotopes in the Cross-Cultural Novel: Time, Space and Meaning in Novels by Toni Morrison, Louis Owens, and Leslie Marmon Silko." U of New Mexico, 2005.

  129. Sugiyama, Naoko. "Speaking with Divine Authority: Maternal Discourse in the Works of Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Marmon Silko." Indiana U, 2003.

  130. Tapia, Ruby C. "Conceiving Images: Racialized Visions of the Maternal." U of California, San Diego, 2002.

  131. Tettenborn, Eva. "Empowering the Past: Mourning and Melancholia in Twentieth-Century African American Literature." State U of New York at Binghamton, 2002.

  132. Timothy, Ellen L. "Individuation and the Paradox of Love: Toni Morrison's Pedagogy of Transformation and Healing." U of Washington, 2004.

  133. Truffin, Sherry Roxane. "Schoolhouse Gothic: Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship." Loyola U of Chicago, 2002.

  134. Turner, Tracy Peterson. "Themes of Exodus and Revolution in Ellison's Invisible Man, Morrison's Beloved, and Doctorow's Ragtime." U of North Texas, 2000.

  135. Ubois, Lynette Marie. "‘when the old time go’: Historical Trauma as Family Narrative in Faulkner, Rhys, Erdrich, and Morrison." U of California, Berkeley, 2000.

  136. Vanrheenen, Beth. "The Emergent Self: Identity, Trauma, and the Neo-Gothic in The Woman Warrior, Comfort Woman, Beloved, and Ceremony." Wayne State U, 2003.

  137. Vassiliou, Likourgos J. "Spirit Matter(s): Post-Dualistic Representations of Spirituality in Fiction by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison, and Gloria Naylor." Louisiana State U, 2002.

  138. Veillette, Marie-Paule. "La Representation De La Folie Dans l'Ecriture Feminine Contemporaine Des Ameriques." U de Montreal (Canada), 2001.

  139. Venugopal, Shubha. "Erotic Eruptions and Communal Disruptions: Discourses of Desire and Resistance in 20th Century Black Women's Novels." U of Michigan, 2002.

  140. Vrajitoru, Liana. "Identity and the Fall: Three Perspectives on the Shifting American Literary Imagination." State U of New York at Binghamton, 2003.

  141. Wehner, David Zahm. "‘A Lot Up for Grabs’: The Conversion Narrative in Modernity in Kate Chopin, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison." U of Minnesota, 2005.

  142. Weir, Donna Maxine. "Beyond Binaries: Creolized Forms of Resistance in African-American and Caribbean Literatures." U of California, Berkeley, 2000.

  143. Whitney, Brenda J. "Realism Beyond Representation: Morrison, Ben Jelloun, Rushdie and the Subject of Freedom." U of Pittsburgh, 2001.

  144. Wigfall, Jacqueline Teresa. "Kemetic Character(s) in African, Caribbean and American Novels." Stanford U, 2003.

  145. Williams, Clarissa. "Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: A Call to Communal Reckoning: An Examination of Mental Disorder as a Maladaptive Response Mode to Racism in Selected Narrative Texts by Toni Morrison." Temple U, 2002.

  146. Wilson, Shonda Lavern. "Something Inside so Strong: Affirmations of the Spiritual in African American Literature." State U of New York at Stony Brook, 2002.

  147. Wiltse, Cheryl Ann. "Rhetoric of Ethnicity: Selected Texts of the American Minority Writers Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Toni Morrison." Texas Woman's U, 2004.

  148. Wood, Rebecca S. "Slavery's Visual and Literary Legacy: Trauma Studies and Recent Reconfigurations of Slave Bodies." Indiana U, 2004.

  149. Young, Phil E. "The Thing that Will Not Die: Shadows of Monstrosity in Peter Matthiessen and Toni Morrison." U of Alabama, 2004.

  150. Young, Robert Milton. "Invisible Presence: Toward a Theory of African-American Subjectivity." Syracuse U, 2000.