This guide lists selected sources for library criticism of Beloved by Toni Morrison.

Reference Books

• African American Writers (Ref PS 153 .N5 A344 2001) Volume(s):
  • 2: 592-93
• Masterplots II: African American Literature series (Ref PS 153 .N5 M2645 1994) Volume(s):
  • 1: 119-24
• Novels for Students (Ref PN 3385 .N68) Volume(s):
  • 6: 25-51

General Collection Books (may be checked out)

• Andrews, William L. and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. Toni Morrison's 'Beloved': A Casebook. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. (PS 3563 .O8749 B438 1999)
• Bloom, Harold, ed. Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.'. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. (PS 3563 .O8749 B433 2004)
• Bloom, Harold, ed. Toni Morrison's 'Beloved." Philadelphia: Chelsea house, 1999. (PS 3563 .O8749 B433 1999).
• Conner, Marc C., ed. The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000. (PS 3563 .O8749 Z53 2000)
• Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. (PS 3563 .O8749 Z75 1998)
• Mckay, Nellie Y., comp. Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Boston: Hall, 1988. (PS 3563 .O8749 Z63 1988)
• Weinstein, Arnold L. Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison. New York: Random House, 2006. (PR 888 .S427 W45 2006)

E-Books

• Duvall, John N. The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist authenticity and Postmodern Blackness. New York: Palgrave, 2002. ebrary
• Eckard, Paula Gallant, contributor. Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason and Lee Smith. U of Missouri P, 2002. ebrary
• King, Lovalerie and Lynn Orilla Scott, eds. James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays. New York: Basingstoke, 2006. ebrary
• Marks, Kathleen. Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and the Apotropaic Imagination. U of Missouri P, 2002. ebrary
• Robinson, Mary. 'Beloved': Notes. Cliff Notes, 1993. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).

Online Resources (Reference Articles and Databases)

• Literature Resource Center
• Literature Criticism Online
• Literature Online

Articles

Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, and JSTOR for recent journal articles like those posted below.

• Barnett, Pamela E. "Figurations of Rape and the Supernatural in 'Beloved.'" PMLA 112 (1997): 418-27. JSTOR.
• Berger, James. "Ghosts of Liberalism: Morrison's 'Beloved' and the Moynihan Report." PMLA 111 (1996): 408-20. JSTOR.
• Bouson, J. "Uncovering the Beloved in the Warring and Lawless Women in Toni Morrison's Love." Midwest Quarterly 49 (2008): 358-373. MasterFILE Premier
• Coonradt, N. M. "To be Loved: Amy Denver and Human Need--Bridges to Understanding in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved" College Literature 32 (2005) 168-87. Project Muse
• Byrne, D. "'Yonder they do not love your flesh.' Community in Toni Morrison's "Beloved: The limitations of Citizenship and Property in the American Public Sphere." Canadian Review of American Studies 29.2 (1999): 25. Academic Search Premier
• Daniel, J. "Function or Frill: The Quilt as Storyteller in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.'" Midwest Quarterly 41 (2000): 321. Academic Search Premier
• Eppert, C. "Histories Re-imagined, Forgotten, and Forgiven: Student Responses to Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.'" Changing English: Studies in Reading & Culture 10 (2003): 185-94. Academic Serach Premier
• Goldstein, P. "Black Feminism and the Canon: Faulkner's 'Absalom, Absalom!' and Morrison's "Beloved' as Gothic Romances." Faulkner Journal 20 (2004): 133-48. Academic Search Premier
• Khawaja, Mabel, Jon-Christian Suggs, and James Berger. "Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.'" Special Topic: The Teaching of Literature. PMLA 112 (1997): 115-118. JSTOR.
• Kreyling, M. "Slave Life; Freed Life - Everyday Was a Test and Trial: Identity and Memory in "Beloved.'" Arizona Quarterly 63 (2007): 109-36.
• Moglen, Helene. "Redeeming History: Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.'" Cultural Critique 24 (Spring, 1993): 17-40. JSTOR.
• Page, Philip. "Circularity in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.'" African-American Review 26 (Spring, 1992): 31-39. [Women Writer's issue). JSTOR.
• Simpson, Angela. "Morrison's 'Beloved.'" Explicator 56 (1998): 154. Academic Search Premier
• Wyatt, Jean. "Giving Body to the Word: The Maternal Symbolic in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.'" PMLA 108 (1993): 474-88. JSTOR.

Prepared by Sheila Afnan-Manns, Fall, 2008.

Updated by Allison Ringness, Fall, 2012.