Toni Morrison: A Giant, Formidable, Intellectual Force!

It was during the fall semester of 1989. My senior year of college that I read Beloved. The powerful, intense, emotional, gut wrenching Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Toni Morrison. I remember the class discussions that took place in my African American Literature course that were deeply infected with passion, emotion and a degree of heightened anticipation as to what sort of comment(s) fellow students would espouse. The commentary that occurred during discussion of that novel were among the most provocative of my undergraduate career.