This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate's aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels. Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly ori[...]
Reading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison draws on contemporary scholarship and Morrison's own commentary to explicate all of her novels published to date, including her 2008 novel A Mercy. Morrison, the 1993 Nobel Prize winner, is an unabashedly confrontational author. Her profound and complex nov[...]
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 Mor[...]
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Toni Morrison's construction of alternative and oppositional narratives of history and places her work as central to the imagining and re-imagining of American and diasporic identities. Covering the Nobel Prize-winn[...]
At first glance, "Beloved" would appear to be the only "ghost story" among Toni Morrison's nine novels, but as this provocative new study shows, spectral presences and places abound in the celebrated author's fiction. Melanie R. Anderson explores how Morrison uses specters to bring the traumas of Af[...]
"Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning" boasts essays by well-known international scholars focusing on the author's literary production and including her very latest works--the theatrical production "Desdemona" and her tenth and latest novel, "Home." These original contributions are among the first scho[...]
Carl Plasa presents and analyzes the most important writings on Toni Morrison's "Beloved", beginning with a discussion of the novel's reception and a consideration of the selected interviews with Morrison in the years following the publication.[...]
"The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is reimagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traore, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Sellars' 2009 production of Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between[...]
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the [...]
If you haven't read Toni Morrison, TONI MORRISON FOR BEGINNERS will introduce you to her novels - plot descriptions, subtexts, reviews and Morrison's comments on her work. However, if you have read - or attempted to read - Toni Morrison, you may need this book even more. Many people consider Morriso[...]
Unlock the more straightforward side of Beloved with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Beloved by Toni Morrison, which tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who was prepared to commit a horrific crime rather than be forced back into sla[...]
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 c[...]
Literature offers unique opportunities to expose, question, and reimagine conventional notions of race and gender. On what textual clues do we as readers rely to determine whether a character is black or white, male or female? What happens to our conceptions of social interaction when these clues ar[...]
Litterärt mästerverk av Nobelpristagaren Toni Morrison
Efter fasansfulla upplevelser under Koreakriget återvänder Frank Money till 1950-talets USA, präglat av rasism och förtryck. Han är en spillra av sitt forna jag - fylld av ilska och självförakt och med endast fragmentariska m[...]
Nytt temasläpp från Albert Bonniers klassikerserie - Amerikanska klassiker
124:an var förhäxad. Full av en barnunges ondska. Kvinnorna i huset visste det och barnen också. I flera år härdade de ut med elakheterna var och en på sitt vis, men 1873 var det bara Sethe och hennes dotter De[...]
Anteckningsbok med olinjerade blad. Porträtt av Toni Morrison som tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur 1993. Illustration av Kristin Lidström.[...]
In 1993 Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel committee described her work as "characterized by visionary force and poetic import [that] gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."
Twenty years later, a group of scholars met in Stockholm to commemorat[...]
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida, jopa L â kaikki nämä naiset ovat hulluna Bill Coseyhyn. Cosey on paljon muutakin kuin Coseyn Lomahotellin varakas omistaja, ja häneen suuntautuu heidän isän, aviomiehen, rakastajan, suojelijan ja ystävän kaipuunsa, joka hallitsee heidän elämäänsä [...]
Nobel-palkitun Toni Morrisonin Armolahja on tiivis tragedia joka sijoittuu 1680-luvun Amerikkaan, orjakaupan alkuaikoihin, kun eri kansallisuudet, uskonnot, ihmiset ja luonnonvoimat taistelivat mantereen herruudesta. Teosta voidaan pitää preludina teokselle Minun kansani, minun rakkaani, joka kert[...]
Tämä tarina - näyttämönä Ohio Yhdysvaltain sisällissodan jälkeen - kertoo Sethestä, karanneesta orjanaisesta, joka on uhmannut kuolemaa tempautuakseen irti elävänä kuolleen kohtalosta. Samalla hän on menettänyt puolisonsa ja antanut epätoivoissaan lapsensa kuolemalle; hän on kestäny[...]
Morrisonin ensimmäinen Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinnon jälkeen julkaistu romaani "Paratiisi", jolle kirjailija itse olisi halunnut antaa nimeksi "War" (sota), alkaa väkivaltaisesta kohtauksesta Oklahoman sydänmailla eräänä aamuna vuonna 1976. Siellä on pieni Rubyn kaupunki, jonka vapautettujen[...]