The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Toni Morrison

  • In Praise of Editors

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    Heidi Darroch
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    I’ve just completed comments/corrections in response to the best copyediting of my academic work that I’ve ever experienced (for a forthcoming MLA volume on teaching Margaret Atwood). It was a marked contrast to some past mediocre experiences, and one real disaster, when an entire book manuscript, including my chapter, was outsourced to a non-English-speaking country…

  • African American Women’s Fiction and Murder: From Toni Morrison to Tracy Clark

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    Heidi Darroch
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    During the fall of 1999, I attended NYU as a visiting grad student in order to take African American literature–I believe we covered 1880 to 1960ish–with the newly hired, and ever so brilliant, Dr. Elizabeth McHenry. Every white grad student should have at least one similar immersion experience. We were the minority, and most of…