Lee Baxter is an independent scholar with her M.A.
in Gender Studies and a Ph.D. (A.B.D) in Gothic and Horror
Literature and Film Studies. Broadly, her research concerns the
representation of wounded bodies and psyches in literature and
film.
Martha Satz, Assistant Professor of English at
Southern Methodist University, holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Texas in humanities and an A.B.D. in philosophy from Brown
University. She has published widely on such diverse topics as Jane
Austen, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, children’s literature, and
genetics and the disability community. She teaches courses on
minority literature, African- American women writers, and
African-American literature. The adoptive mother of two bi-racial
children (African American and white), now adults, she has written
frequently about this experience.
?The essays in Toni Morrison on Mothers and Motherhood explore Morrison's complex and nuanced treatment of mothering. The collection strongly enriches the scholarship on Morrison Studies, providing original insights into her earlier work and, importantly, illuminating her recent novels, such as Home and God Help the Child.? ?ANISSA JANINE WARDI, Professor of English, Chatham University, author of Water and African American Memory: An Ecocritical Perspective ?This collection on Toni Morrison's oeuvre reshapes definitions of mothering in her novels and expands our working knowledge of families under intersectional pressures, both in the works and in the world. Fans and critics of Morrison, as well as motherhood and family scholars, particularly those interested in the practice of othermothering, will find this book enlightening. Explored are non-normative ?mothers, ? oppressions that enable the conditions of ?bad? mothering, and the effects of absent/poor mothering on children. These essays are essential reading for those interested in mothering and Morrison.? ?NICOLE L. WILLEY, Professor of English, Kent State University Tuscarawas
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