Introduction : Morrison and the Maternal -- Mothers at Random in The Bluest Eye -- Sula and the Individuality of Mothering -- Replacement Mothering in Song of Solomon -- Tar Baby and Its Multiple Non-mothers -- Beloved, Beloved, Beloved, Beloved... -- Jazz and Its Mothers and Non-mothers -- Playing in the Dark and the Nobel Acceptance Lecuture -- Paradise and its Mothers -- Love and Its Absence of Mothers -- A Mercy and Abandoning Mothers -- Frank Money, Cee, and the Maternal in Home -- Coda.