"Passing on" death: stealing life in Toni Morrison's Paradise

African American Review, Fall, 2004 by Sarah Appleton Aguiar

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Sarah Appleton Aguiar is an Associate Professor at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. She is the author of The Bitch is Back: Wicked Women in Literature (SIU P, 2000) and co-editor of He Said, She Says: An RSVP to the Male Text (Farleigh-Dickinson UP, 2000).