@article{c28a2d7ae14b479987dfab4373715a6f,
title = "Introduction: Toni Morrison's artistic cosmology and enduring legacy",
author = "Rhaisa Williams and Stacie McCormick",
note = "Funding Information: RHAISA KAMEELA WILLIAMS is Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis. Williams{\textquoteright} research uses mixed-archive methods—spanning across literature, family history, archives, and public policy—to focus on the intersections of blackness, motherhood, affect, and disquieting modes of freedom. Currently, she is writing her manuscript, Mama, Don{\textquoteright}t You Weep: Motherhood, Blackness, and Performances of Grief, that traces the intimate relationship between grief and black motherhood from the civil rights movement to the present. Offering discontinuous readings of grief, the book asserts that black women, no matter their personal relationship to offspring or othermothering, have specifically mobilized grief inherent to black motherhood as a tactic to perform, remake, and critique forms of citizenship. Her work has been supported by the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, and the Mellon, Woodrow Wilson, and Ford foundations; and has appeared or is forthcoming in College Literature, Transforming Anthropology, Callaloo, and Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1353/LIT.2020.0029",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "47",
pages = "641--656",
journal = "College Literature",
issn = "0093-3139",
publisher = "West Chester University",
number = "4",
}