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Title: Conversations With Toni Morrison (Literary Conversations Series (Paper)) by Toni Morrison, Danille Taylor-Guthrie ISBN: 0-87805-692-0 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: No one knows Morrison's work like herself
Comment: Toni Morrison was clearly ahead of her time -- look at her novels. Her interest in myth, history, a decentered narrator, racialized images of self, and aural language were well ahead of most critics and theorists, who are only now recognizing the full worth of her work. These collected interviews allow us to hear from the horse's mouth what her narrative project is. For Morrison fans, it is particularly interesting to see how the various white interviewers grapple with Morrison's insistence on writing about the culture she knows best -- black culture -- and not putting whites front and center. It is also interesting to see how Morrison herself switches positions throughout her career, from an insistence that she writes only for herself (early in her career) to writing for "the [black] tribe" (middle of her career)to writing for seemingly everybody (later career). A particular treat, for me, were references scattered throughout to how "prickly" Morrison can be and how catty she was about not being nominated for a National Book Award for SONG OF SOLOMON.
Rating: 5
Summary: Important companion to Playing in the Dark
Comment: The interviews in this book illuminate the forces behind Morrison's scholarly theories about the role of race in American literature. Anyone who has read "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination" will immediately recognize key themes in many of these interviews, although the strongest distinctions can be found in the last two interviews, each given after publication of "Playing in the Dark." Taken chronilogically, the interviews are a thrillling opportunity to observe how Morrison has evolved as a writer and a scholar. To me, it is clear her novels are a carefully crafted attempt to mirror the racialized signifying she identifies in her scholarly critiques of white writer's work.
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Title: Love by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0375409440 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Playing In The Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0679745424 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable by Marc Cameron Reyes-Conner, Marc C. Conner ISBN: 1578062853 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Dancing Mind : Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by Toni Morrison ISBN: 037540032X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 24 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Tar Baby by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452264790 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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