The Timeless Toni Morrison: The Past and The Present in Toni Morrison’s Fiction. A Tribute to Toni Morrison on Occasion of Her 85th Birthday

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Introduction
History Imagination and Truth
	How to Speak about the Unspeakable – Historical Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms (Agnieszka Gondor-Wiercioch)
	Biting Iron, Forever Smiling: the Iron-Bit, the Wounded Mouth, and Un-Silencing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Irina Popescu)
Identity
	Moving Beyond the Veil of Double Consciousness: Making the Past, Present in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (Tammie Jenkins)
	From Essentialism to Choice: The Emergence and Intricacies of Contemporary Playful Racial Identities in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child (Agnieszka Łobodziec)
	Pragmatic and Linguistic Functions in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Barbara Compagnucci)
Challenging Master Discourses
	The Paradox of the Master Narrative: The Contradictory Voices of Toni Morrison’s Home (Stephanie Li)
	Constructing the Long, Lost Son: Multiply-Voiced Discourses in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby (Misty Standage)
	‘We Are the Furrow of His Brow’: Countering Mythic History in Morrison’s Paradise (Ji Hyun Lee)
	Challenging the Mirror of Whiteness: the Politics of Images and Sight in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (Blossom N. Fondo)
	About the authors