2Harris Trudier, “Watchers Watching Watchers: Positioning Characters and Readers in Baldwin's ‘Sormy's Blues' and Morrison's ‘Recitatif' ” in King Lovalerie and Scott Lynn Orilla eds. , James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
3Goldstein-Shirley David, “Race and Response: Toni Morrison's ‘Recitatif' ,” in Short Story (5: 1), 1997 Spring, pp. 77-86.
4Ann Rayson, “Decoding for Race : Toni Morrison's ‘Recitatif' and Being White, Teaching Black,” in Larry E. Smith and John Rieder eds. , Changing Representations of Minorities East and West, Honolulu, HI: College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawaii, with East-West Center, 1996, pp. 41 - 46.
5Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992. p. xi.
6Betty Fussell, "All That Jazz," in Taylor-Guthrie, Conversations with Toni Morrison, p. 283. Rpt. from Lear's 5.8 (1 October 1992): 68.
7Jones Bessie W. and Audrey Vinson, "An Interview with Toni Morrison," in Taylor-Guthrie, Conversations with Toni Morrison, p. 172, p. 179.
9M. A. Conway , S.A. Dewhurst , "The Self and Recollective Experience," in Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1995, 9: pp. 1 -19.
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