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The origin of others / Toni Morrison ; with a foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates. by Morrison, Toni. Harvard University Press, 2017. Call #: 810.9896 M882o Subjects Morrison, Toni.   Blacks in literature.   Blacks -- United States -- Race identity.   Race in literature.   Racism -- United States -- History.   American literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.   American literature -- History and criticism. Series Charles Eliot Norton lectures. ISBN:  9780674976450 (hc.) Description:  xvii, 114 pages ; 19 cm. Contents:  Foreword / by Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Romancing slavery -- Being or becoming the stranger -- The color fetish -- Configurations of blackness -- Narrating the other -- The foreigner's home. Summary:  "America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity. In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially literature. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Camara Laye are among the authors she examines. Readers of Morrison's fiction will welcome her discussions of some of her most celebrated books - Beloved, Paradise, and A Mercy. If we learn racism by example, then literature plays an important part in the history of race in America, both negatively and positively. Morrison writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative. Expanding the scope of her concern, she also addresses globalization and the mass movement of peoples in this century. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Morrison's most personal work of nonfiction to date"--Inside cover. Other authors:  Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 810.9896 M882o Adult books Trace Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 810.9896 M882o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 810.9896 M882o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 810.9896 M882o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 810.9896 M882o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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