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Remember: the journey to school integration
By Toni Morrison. 2004
An account of the thoughts and feelings of children involved in school desegregation. Provides background to the 1954 groundbreaking Brown…
v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision and the movement to eliminate racist laws. For grades 3-6. 2004La fuente de la autoestima
By Toni Morrison. 2019
p style="text-align:center">El último libro de la gran premio Nobel de Literatura: su insoslayable legado moral e intelectual El racismo puede…
ponerse un traje nuevo, comprarse unas botas nuevas, pero ni él ni su súcubo gemelo, el fascismo, son nuevos ni capaces de nada nuevo. Solo puede reproducir el entorno que respalda su propia condición: el miedo, el rechazo y una atmósfera en que sus víctimas han perdido las ganas de luchar.TONI MORRISONLa fuente de la autoestima es la magnífica recopilación de ensayos y discursos de Toni Morrison en los que ofrece sus lúcidas reflexiones sobre la sociedad, la cultura y el arte de los últimos cuarenta años, y realiza una contundente crítica de sus obras y también de algunas ajenas. Morrison aborda temas sociales acuciantes como la inmigración, el empoderamiento de la mujer, la prensa, el dinero o los derechos humanos, la función de los artistas en la sociedad, la creación literaria y, al igual que en su emocionante discurso de recepción del Premio Nobel, el poder del lenguaje. La crítica ha dicho...«Morrison recordó que Estados Unidos se ha levantado sobre la raza, la esclavitud, la memoria, la identidad, la discriminación y la integración de la cultura afroamericana. Nunca se cansó de señalar la manera como los negros han sido tratados en su país. Y no ocultó las críticas a su raza. [...] Gran parte de todo eso está expresado en La fuente de la autoestima.»Winston Manrique «Toni Morrison es la gran narradora de la verdad afroamericana. Una de las personas que mejor ha contado y reflexionado sobre la situación de la población negra y su cultura en Estados Unidos y sobre la raza en general en el mundo. [...] Nunca se cansó de señalar la manera como los negros han sido tratados en su país. Y no ocultó las críticas a su raza. Gran parte de todo eso está expresado en La fuente de la autoestima.»The Huffington Post «Este libro es un legado, [...] una suerte de testamento intelectual. En él, la Nobel de Literatura hace algo así como abrirnos la sala de máquinas de sus ficciones. [...] Una mezcla originalísima de inteligencia, fuerza y humanidad. [...] Imprescindible.»Pablo Martínez Zarracina, La Rioja «Una autora fundamental del siglo XX que en La fuente de la autoestima demuestra por qué está considerada una referencia moral, ética y cultural. Un testamento literario de una luchadora infatigable contra el racismo y a favor de los derechos humanos. Textos de mucha actualidad a pesar de haber sido escritos hace años.»Use Lahoz, El Ojo Crítico (RNE 1) «Morrison es algo más que la abanderada de la literatura norteamericana. Es nuestra mejor cantante. Y este libro, probablemente su canción más importante. [...] Resulta mágico ser testigodel trabajo de su mente e imaginación, tan fértiles y sutiles como el jazz.»James McBride, The New York Times Book Review «Conmovedor. [...] Magnífico. [...] Un gran libro, rico, heterogéneo, ¡aleluya! [...] Uno siente la tentación de examinar con detenimiento sus palabras: su agudeza y claridad moral son deslumbrantes, del mismo modo que su visión sobre cómo deberíamos caminar hacia un futuro menos injusto y con menos odio.»The Guardian «Deslumbrante, cautivadora y sumamente personal: una reflexión sobre su carrera literaria y su misión artística, que no es sino la de revelar y honrar la belleza del dolor y el drama de la vida de los afroamericanos.»O, The Oprah MagazineRemember: The Journey to School Integration
By Toni Morrison. 2004
Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. These unforgettable…
images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison's text, a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived during the era of separate but equal schooling. Remember is a unique pictorial and narrative journey that introduces children to a watershed period in American history and its relevance to us today. Remember will be published on the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ending legal school segregation, handed down on May 17, 1954.Winner of the Coretta Scott King MedalThe Origin of Others
By Toni Morrison. 2017
What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost…
novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Toni Morrison’s most personal work of nonfiction to date.El origen de los otros
By Toni Morrison. 2017
La visión de la gran Toni Morrison, Premio Nobel de Literatura, sobre la vida y la identidad racial. ¿Qué es…
la raza y por qué es importante? ¿Qué motiva la tendencia humana a construir Otros? ¿Por qué la presencia de esos Otros nos asusta tanto? Basándose en sus Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison aborda estas y otras cuestiones que dominan cada vez más la política mundial: la raza, el miedo, las fronteras, los movimientos de masas, el deseo de pertenencia... En su búsqueda de respuestas, la novelista revisa cuidadosamente sus propios recuerdos, así como la historia, la política y, especialmente, la literatura, examinando autores como Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway y William Faulkner. A través de ellos analiza las nociones de pureza racial, el origen de la raza negra como una herramienta para definir una sociedad inmigrante con una gran variedad de procedencias y costumbres, o las formas en que la literatura emplea el color de la piel para definir a los personajes o conducir la narrativa. Con un prólogo del ganador del National Book Award, Ta-Nehisi Coates. La crítica ha dicho sobre el libro...«El origen de los otros no es un libro sobre las diferencias raciales (al fin y al cabo, como señala Morrison, solo hay una raza humana) sino sobre las posibilidades y responsabilidades de la literatura. Tras leerlo, lo que perdura en nuestras mentes son las audaces y delicadas yuxtaposiciones literarias de la autora.»Lidija Haas, The Guardian «El origen de los otros está lleno de sabios argumentos, que se vuelven aún más persuasivos por la prosa elegante y su rechazo hacia aquel imaginario sobre la otredad de la que todos somos infelices herederos. Leer este inteligente, inquisitivo e inspirador libro es familiarizarse con una autora enemiga de esa herencia y una amiga vital del proyecto humano.»Matthew Adams, The National «Unos ensayos ricamente adornados con anécdotas y recuerdos, pero profundamente basados en el análisis literario... El origen de los otros es políticamente profético.»Beejay Silcox, The Australian «La laureada premio Nobel teje en este libro memorias e historia a través de un mordaz análisis literario, y nos ofrece reflexiones sensibles sobre la configuración de la alteridad... Tan nítida como cabría de esperar de tan aclamada autora.»Kirkus Reviews «Morrison ha encontrado una voz y un estilo puro y directo, [...] ha desvelado las formas en las que la violencia se trenza con la pasión para redimir un pasado que vuelve y duele.»Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times «Un delicioso ensayo que nos muestra lo que no nos cuentan otros manuales. Morrison vuelve a sorprender con su facilidad para hacer llegar su discurso racista en los barrios obreros y para conseguir aglutinar a gente diferente bajo un mismo miedo: los demás.»Álvaro Muñoz, Llegir en cas d'incendi Y sobre la autora...«Toni Morrison se ha convertido en la D.H. Lawrence de la psique negra, transformando individuos en fuerzas, idiosincrasias en inevitabilidad.»New York Magazine «Toni Morrison es una de las más grandes estudiosas de los conceptos de raza e identidad [...]. Su trabajo es transformador, estimulante, angustiante. Y urgentemente necesario.»Matthew Adams, The National «Basta con leer los periódicos para entender que la obra de Morrison es tan necesaria y revolucionaria ahora como lo fue al final de la era de los Derechos Civiles cuando empezó a escribir.»John Freeman, Letras Libres «Leer la obra de Toni Morrison es una experiencia poderosa; sus libros están llenos de fuerza, de indignación, de violencia.»Ana María Ferreira, Razonpublica.comIt was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill…
at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings shocked and galvanized viewers not only in this country but the world over, they cast a long shadow on essential issues that define America. In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academicians—Black and white, male and female. These writings powerfully elucidate not only the racial and sexual but also the historical, political, cultural, legal, psychological, and linguistic aspects of a signal and revelatory moment in American history.The Toni Morrison Book Club
By Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, Piper Kendrix Williams. 2020
In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born—use Toni Morrison’s novels as a…
springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from first love and Soul Train to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, the authors take up what it means to read challenging literature collaboratively and to learn in public as an act of individual reckoning and social resistance. Framing their book club around collective secrets, the group bears witness to how Morrison’s works and words can propel us forward while we sit with uncomfortable questions about race, gender, and identity. How do we make space for black vulnerability in the face of white supremacy and internalized self-loathing? How do historical novels speak to us now about the delicate seams that hold black minds and bodies together? This slim and brilliant confessional offers a radical vision for book clubs as sites of self-discovery and communal healing. The Toni Morrison Book Club insists that we find ourselves in fiction and think of Morrison as a spiritual guide to our most difficult thoughts and ideas about American literature and life.Toni Morrison: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
By Linda Wagner-Martin. 2022
A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison—fiction, non-fiction, and other—drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her…
primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison’s intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion of God Help the Child, The Origin of Others, and The Source of Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on Morrison’s major literary contributions, but also trace her significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the consistency of Morrison’s aesthetic and political visions.Toni Morrison: A Literary Life (Literary Lives #67)
By L. Wagner-Martin. 2015
A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison — fiction, non-fiction, and other — drawing extensively from her many interviews…
as well as her primary texts. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty years.The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable
By Marc C. Conner. 2000
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as sagas illuminating history, race, culture, and gender politics. This…
gathering of eight essays by top scholars probes Morrison's novels and her growing body of nonfiction and critical work for the complex and potent aesthetic elements that have made her a major American novelist of the twentieth century. Through traditional aesthetic concepts such as the sublime, the beautiful, and the grotesque, through issues of form, narrative, and language, and through questions of affect and reader response, the nine essays in this volume bring into relief the dynamic and often overlooked range within Morrison's writing. Employing aesthetic ideas that range from the ancient Greeks to contemporary research in the black English oral tradition, The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison shows the potency of these ideas for interpreting Morrison's writing. This is a force Morrison herself has often suggested in her claims that Greek tragedy bears a striking similarity to “Afro-American communal structures.” At the same time each essay attends to the ways in which Morrison also challenges traditional aesthetic concepts, establishing the African American and female voices that are essential to her sensibility. The result is a series of readings that simultaneously expands our understanding of Morrison's work and also provokes new thinking about an aesthetic tradition that is nearly 2,500 years old. These essays offer a rich complement to the dominant approaches in Morrison scholarship by revealing aspects of her work that purely ideological approaches have obscured or about which they have remained oddly silent. Each essay focuses particularly on the relations between the aesthetic and the ethical in Morrison's writing and between the artistic production and its role in the world at large. These relations show the rich political implications that aesthetic analysis engenders. By treating both Morrison's fiction and her nonfiction, the essays reveal a mind and imagination that have long been intimately engaged with the questions and traditions of the aesthetic domain. The result is a provocative and original contribution to Morrison scholarship, and to scholarship in American letters generally.Speaking Freely: My Life in Publishing and Human Rights
By Toni Morrison, Robert L. Bernstein. 2016
What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published…
by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Václav Havel to worldwide attention in his role as the father of modern human rights.Starting as an office boy at Simon & Schuster in 1946, Bernstein moved to Random House in 1956 and succeeded Bennett Cerf as president ten years later. The rest is publishing and human rights history.In a charming and self-effacing work, Bernstein reflects for the first time on his fairy tale publishing career, hobnobbing with Truman Capote and E.L. Doctorow; conspiring with Kay Thompson on the Eloise series; attending a rally for Random House author George McGovern with film star Claudette Colbert; and working with publishing luminaries including Dick Simon, Alfred Knopf, Robert Gottlieb, André Schiffrin, Peter Osnos, Susan Peterson, and Jason Epstein as Bernstein grew Random House from a $40 million to an $800 million-plus "money making juggernaut," as Thomas Maier called it in his biography of Random House owner Si Newhouse. In a book sure to be savored by anyone who has worked in the publishing industry, fought for human rights, or wondered how Theodor Geisel became Dr. Seuss, Speaking Freely beautifully captures a bygone era in the book industry and the first crucial years of a worldwide movement to protect free speech and challenge tyranny around the globe.New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child: Race, Culture, and History
By Alice Knox Eaton, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, and Shirley A. Stave. 2020
Contributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-González,…
and Anissa Wardi In her eleventh novel, God Help the Child, Toni Morrison returned to several of the signature themes explored in her previous work: pernicious beauty standards for women, particularly African American women; mother-child relationships; racism and colorism; and child sexual abuse. God Help the Child, published in 2015, is set in the contemporary period, unlike all of her previous novels. The contemporary setting is ultimately incidental to the project of the novel, however; as with Morrison’s other work, the story takes on mythic qualities, and the larger-than-life themes lend themselves to allegorical and symbolic readings that resonate in light of both contemporary and historical issues. New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's “God Help the Child”: Race, Culture, and History, a collection of eight essays by both seasoned Morrison scholars as well as new and rising scholars, takes on the novel in a nuanced and insightful analysis, interpreting it in relation to Morrison’s earlier work as well as locating it within ongoing debates in literary and other academic disciplines engaged with African American literature. The volume is divided into three sections. The first focuses on trauma—both the pain and suffering caused by neglect and abuse, as well as healing and understanding. The second section considers narrative choices, concentrating on experimentation and reader engagement. The third section turns a comparative eye to Morrison's fictional canon, from her debut work of fiction, The Bluest Eye, until the present. These essays build on previous studies of Morrison’s novels and deepen readers’ understanding of both her last novel and her larger literary output.This book examines Toni Morrison’s fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist…
political imaginary and conceptualize a more inclusive political imaginary in which black bodies are valued. Herman Beavers closely examines politics of scale and contentious politics in order to discern Morrison's larger intent of revealing the deep structure of power relations in black communities that will enable them to fashion counterhegemonic projects. The volume explores how Morrison stages her ruminations on the political imaginary in neighborhoods or small towns; rooms, houses or streets. Beavers argues that these spatial and domestic geographies are sites where the management of traumatic injury is integral to establishing a sense of place, proposing these “tight spaces” as sites where narratives are produced and contested; sites of inscription and erasure, utterance and silence.The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
By Toni Morrison, Lucille Clifton, Kevin Young, Michael S. Glaser. 1987
Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry"The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important…
book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly"All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly"If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it."-NPR"The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us."--The Washington Post"The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton-both the woman and her poetry-is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness."-Toni Morrison, from the ForewordThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career.On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition," and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America."mother-tongue: to man-kind" (from the unpublished the book of days):all that I am asking isthat you see me as somethingmore than a common occurrence,more than a woman in her ordinary skin.Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one…
of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy— a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a “novel-tragedy” (Kliger)—and a novel of objects. Its many things—literary, conceptual,linguistic— are viewed as vessels carrying the (hi)story and the political concerns. From this, a third conclusion is drawn: Fadem argues for a view of Beloved as a case for reparations. That status is founded on two outstanding object lessons: the character of Beloved as embodiment of the subject-object relations defining the slave state and the grammatical object “weather” in the sentence “The rest is…” on the novel’s final page. This intertextual reference places Beloved in a comparative link with Hamlet and Oresteia. Fadem’s research is meticulous in engaging the full spectrum of tragedy theory, much critical theory, and a full swathe of scholarship on the novel. Few critics take up the matter of reparations, still fewer the politics of genre, craft, and form. This scholar posits Morrison’s tragedy as constituting a searing critique of modernity, as composed through meaningful intertextualities and as crafted by profound “thingly” objects (Brown). Altogether, Fadem has divined a fascinating singular treatment of Beloved exploring the connections between form and craft together with critical historical and political implications. The book argues, finally, that this novel’s first concern is justice, and its chief aim to serve as a clarion call for material— and not merely symbolic—reparations.