The paper analyzes Morrison's use of bland or 'vacant' facial expressions in the light of Sylvan Tomkins' theories that the movement of the facial muscles producing expression trigger both physiological reactions and the conscious feelings associated with emotion. Two sources cited. A 3 page essay discussing the essentiality of memory, re-call memory, and disremembering. A 5 page paper looking at Toni Morrison's Beloved from a feminist perspective. It determines that she is a figment of the collective unconscious of the women of 124 Bluestone Road, and represents the only way they could deal with the trauma of what happened to them.
Bibliography lists two sources.
A 5 page essay on how memory is defined and dealt with in the character of Sethe. No additional sources cited. A 6 page paper discussing two novels - 'The Wedding' by Dorothy West and 'Jazz' by Toni Morrison. Bibliography lists only the two novels as the sources. The focus is on two characters, Pilate, an independent old woman, and her granddaughter Hagar, a vain young girl.