Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing (The Griot Project Book Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 161148491X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Carmen Gillespie is professor of English and creative writing at Bucknell University
There are chapters on Morrison's work in relation to other arts— music, painting, dance—with links to audio tracks from Richard Danielpour's opera Margaret Garner, based on Beloved, and to the poet-musicians Mendi and Keith Obadike's lovely "Praise Song for Toni Morrison," and also poems by Sonia Sanchez and a memoir by Nikki Giovanni. Gillespie includes scholarly pieces by Jan Furman about the relationship between moral knowledge and aesthetics in Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, and by Susan Mayberry, who discusses modernism, race, and food in Tar Baby--to cite just two examples of this collection's riches. (The Journal of African American History)Toni Morrison’s woode
An awesome book by a talented editor and a celebrated list of authors. George C. Shields An awesome book by a talented editor and a celebrated list of authors. This book is fantastic. A most read.
What distinguishes this bookfrom the many other publications that engage Morrison’s work is that the collection is not exclusively a work of critical interpretation or reference. Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the heat of every Saturday afternoon, she sat in the clearing while the people waited among the trees.” Morrison’s Clearing is a complicated and dynamic space. The narrative describes the clearing as “a wide-open place cut deep in the woods nobody knew for what. Verdelle; playwright, Lydia Diamond; composer, Richard Danielpour; photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; the first published interview with Morrison’s friends from Howard University, Florence Ladd and Mary Wilburn; and commentary from President Barack Obama. This book adopts Morrison’s metaphor as articulated in her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, Beloved. The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison’s imagination. Morrison’s vision invites consideration of these complexities and con