Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison, and Eliot

African American American culture American literature articulate attempt attention become begins Beloved blindness calls canonical challenge characters critical cross-cultural dead death Denver describes difference discourse dominant effect Eliot's Eliot's poem Ellison's encounters escape especially example expect experience face familiar fear feel figure Finn focus freedom hand Huck Huck's Huckleberry idea ideals identity imagine importance individual interaction invisible ironic Jim's kind language least less limits lines literary live look loss means memories moral Morrison's mother narrator nature novel offers perhaps plans poem political position possible potential promise questions readers reading recognize relationship represented responsibility rhetorical risk romance says seems sense Sethe Sethe's slave social society speak story suggests tions Tiresias tradition transference transforming Twain's Twain's novel understand vision Waste Land writing