What is in a Name? Reflections on Teaching Somenames in the Novels of Toni Morrison

Abstract

The present article endeavors to build upon the conviction that an all-purpose teaching methodology is not available and how we teach, and what we focus upon in teaching a text depends upon some parameters like the genre and nature of the text, the socio-cultural backdrop in which it is produced and even the specific stylistic peculiarities of the writer in question, among other things. This article tries to exemplify the last point: How some aspects which may be insignificant in some works may have some enormous significance in some other literary works.