The Origin of Others by Morrison, Toni
The Origin of Others by Morrison, Toni

The Origin of Others

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The Origin of Others by Morrison, Toni

The Origin of Others

$35.15
The Origin of Others by Morrison, Toni

The Origin of Others

$35.15
Author: Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison's accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world." --Nell Irvin Painter, New Republic

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 The Origin of Others. 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.

Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 09/18/2017
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.20h x 4.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780674976450


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2017
Booklist 08/01/2017 pg. 14
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2017 pg. 31
Shelf Awareness 10/10/2017

About the Author
Morrison, Toni: - Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. The author of numerous critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, she was the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University.Coates, Ta-Nehisi: - Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle and Between the World and Me.
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