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Toni Morrison's Secret Drive

Author : David S. Goldstein

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 201 pages

File Size : 48,1 MB

Release : 2022-02-24

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1476641099

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The late Toni Morrison was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. A powerful writer, she wove stories depicting the largely overlooked Black experience in America and exploring the intersection of gender and race through the lives of Black women. Morrison's writing continues to move people and push readers to reassess their beliefs about what it means to be Black in America. Synthesizing some 250 scholarly works about Morrison's writing, this book examines eight novels as well as the short story "Recitatif." They are analyzed for techniques used to deepen meaning and emotional weight, and reveal Morrison's mastery over prose.



Home

Author : Toni Morrison

Publisher : Knopf Canada

Page : 113 pages

File Size : 18,31 MB

Release : 2012-05-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307399745

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The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home--and himself in it--may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding himself--and his home.



Sula

Author : Toni Morrison

Publisher : Knopf

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 35,63 MB

Release : 2002-04-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0375415351

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From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. This brilliantly imagined novel brings us the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.



Quiet As It's Kept

Author : J. Brooks Bouson

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 23,79 MB

Release : 2000-01-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780791444245

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Focuses on the role of shame and trauma as it looks at issues of race, class, color, and caste in the novels of Toni Morrison.



Toni Morrison

Author : Lucille P. Fultz

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 36,13 MB

Release : 2012-11-22

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1441125396

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Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon Morrison's most recently published novels (Paradise, Love, A Mercy) the contributors to this volume revisit issues that continue to engage Morrison and are part of the currency of contemporary American literary and cultural history. These selections examine Morrison's ongoing "romance" with African Americans as they continue to battle the demons of race, gender, class, and poverty, to name a few. Together, these essays offer comprehensive and nuanced discussions of Morrison's latest novels and provide new directions for Morrison scholarship in the 21st century. This volume provides students of literature, cultural studies, and history with an overview of Morrison's examination of African American progress and leadership at key moments in American history and culture from the Colonial Period to the present. Through their thematic interconnectedness, the essays reveal Morrison at her most brilliant in her ability to reach into the past to comment on contemporary issues.



Beloved

Author : Toni Morrison

Publisher : Everyman's Library

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 42,3 MB

Release : 2006-10-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307264882

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.



Black Orpheus

Author : Saadi A. Simawe

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 14,94 MB

Release : 2002-05-03

Category : Art

ISBN : 1135579830

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Book Description

In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music.



Producing American Races

Author : Patricia McKee

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 34,38 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780822323631

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Looks at how racial identity is produced in novels by James, Faulkner and Morrison and makes the non-essentialist argument that "race" becomes visible to us through a process of image production and exchange.



Jazz

Author : Toni Morrison

Publisher : Knopf

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 42,8 MB

Release : 1992-04-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0679411674

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From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author. “As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem’s jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear.” —Glamour In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This novel “transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious” (People). "The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women.” —The New York Times Book Review