... Chapter 1 focuses on the desire for bodily release that subtly moves throughout a system of narrative flashbacks and anticipations in Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973) and Beloved (1987). The dozen times the author uses the term “easefulness” in her early works provides a key to the utopian map...

... This chapter explores how, in the Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) program, Toni Cade Bambara, Barbara Christian, and Addison Gayle developed student-centered teaching methods to empower educationally disenfranchised students. Among their many creative approaches, it focuses...