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Playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination (The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ; #1990)

By Toni Morrison. 1992

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Literature, Criticism
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist examines American literature for the characterization of blacks. Three extended essays, citing specific examples, form the author's…

response to questions about race and its influence on writers. Morrison reflects both on the assumptions that went into the creation of black imagery and on the effect the imagery has on the reader's imagination. 1992.

The origin of others

By Toni Morrison. 2017

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"America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear,…

borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity in The Origin of Others. In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially literature. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Camara Laye are among the authors she examines. Readers of Morrison's fiction will welcome her discussions of some of her most celebrated books-Beloved, Paradise, and A Mercy. If we learn racism by example, then literature plays an important part in the history of race in America, both negatively and positively. Morrison writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative. Expanding the scope of her concern, she also addresses globalization and the mass movement of peoples in this century. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Morrison's most personal work of nonfiction to date." -- Provided by publisher

Toni Morrison (Twayne's United States authors series #TUSAS 559)

By Wilfred D Samuels, Wildfred D. Samuels. 1990

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Literary study of the fiction of the Nobel Prize-winning author. Examines five novels in chronological order, ending with the Pulitzer…

Prize-winning Beloved (DB 26026). The authors analyze Morrison's use of African-American folklore, history, and elements of communal life to create characters in search of wholeness and authentic experience. Includes biographical information and a bibliography

Toni Morrison (Twayne's United States authors series #TUSAS 559)

By Wilfred Samuels. 1990

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Literary study of the fiction of the Nobel Prize-winning author. Examines five novels in chronological order, ending with the Pulitzer…

Prize-winning Beloved (BR 7074/RC 26026). The authors analyze Morrison's use of African-American folklore, history, and elements of communal life to create characters in search of wholeness and authentic experience. Includes biographical information and a bibliography

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