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Sarah Pray wrote a new blog post Women, Men, and the Kitchen in Morrison’s Paradise. in the group American Studies: 9 years, 9 months ago

Now that I’ve begun re-circling through Morrison’s Paradise to search for connections to Dante, I’ve encountered certain through-lines that I hadn’t noticed in my first reading. One of the most significant is t […]
Sarah Pray edited the blog post Violet’s Parrot in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

In my reading of Jazz up until the requirements for today’s class, I have been trying to unpack a reoccurring instance that has caught my attention, Violet’s Parrot. I began with a rather obvious initial question– Why a parrot? In an attempt to better understand Morrison’s intent in including the bird in the text, I began my search with a reading…[Read more]
Sarah Pray wrote a new blog post Infant Death and Haunting in “A Mercy” and “Beloved” in the group American Studies: 9 years, 11 months ago

As we make the leap from Morrison’s A Mercy to Beloved this week, I can’t help but ask myself one question:

Why so many infant deaths?

In A Mercy, we learn of the numerous untimely passing of Rebekka’ […]
Sarah Pray wrote a new blog post A Terrible Transformation, Africans in America in the group American Studies: 10 years ago

This semester, I will be conducting a directed study with Maria Lima on British Black Short Stories. I look forward to the connections and interesting perspectives that reading Toni Morrison’s novels alongside t […]
Sarah Pray wrote a new post on the site Medieval Studies 11 years, 4 months ago

With the popular HBO series Game of Thrones recently kicking off the release of it’s fourth season, a spark of interest in medieval history has been lit into our modern day media culture. At the root of this […]

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