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Genre/Form: | Quotations |
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Named Person: | Toni Morrison; Toni Morrison |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Toni Morrison; Zadie Smith |
ISBN: | 9780525659297 0525659293 |
OCLC Number: | 1122800503 |
Notes: | "A version of the foreword first appeared as "Daughters of Toni: A Remembrance" by Zadie Smith in PEN America as part of "Tribute to Toni Morrision (1931-2019)" on August 7, 2019." -- Title page verso. |
Description: | viii, 129 pages ; 18 cm |
Other Titles: | Quotations. |
Responsibility: | Toni Morrison ; foreword by Zadie Smith. |
Abstract:
"This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the Dark to The Source of Self-Regard--to tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision. Its sequence of flashes of revelation--remarkable for their linguistic felicity, keenness of psychological observation, and philosophical profundity--addresses issues of abiding interest in Morrison's work: the reach of language for the ineffable; transcendence through imagination; the self and its discontents; the vicissitudes of love; the whirligig of memory; the singular power of women; the original American sin of slavery; the bankruptcy of racial oppression; the humanity and art of black people"--
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