Reading Toni Morrison as a Black ... In the first chapter of Beloved, for instance, a recipe for very Southern biscuits is featured, as protagonist Sethe artfully navigates the preparation without ...

Here, Toni, the former student-actress ... in “Tar Baby”; Sethe and Denver and Beloved, in “Beloved”; Joe and Violet and Dorcas, in “Jazz”; the women in “Paradise”—all of ...