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Aug 6, 2019 · One of Morrison’s greatest contributions to literature was the kaleidoscopic vision with which she saw black people—and the rigorous compassion with which she wrote black characters.
Jan 17, 2017 · Jim Morrison, iconic lead singer of the legendary 1960’s rock band The Doors. A spiritual poet and writer, a misunderstood film student, and of course the Lizard King who could do anything. Morrison was undeniably talented, a genius within his work and words.
Overview. Professor Hungerford draws a contrast between Toni Morrison and most of the writers studied up to this point in the course by pointing out how, for an African-American woman writer in particular, language is a site of violence.
In the 1960s, a young poet (Jim Morrison) shattered America’s literary tradition with his acidic blend of music, theater, lyric, and daring. He formed The Doors, a darkly creative, informed, and bizarre music group, with some Los Angeles youths.
- Changing The Past
- Call and Response
- “I’m Already Discredited”: The Complexity of Morrison’s Success
- “It’s in Your Hands”
One of Morrison’s favourite metaphors to describe her fictional project was that of the house and home. “If I had to live in a racial house,” she wrote in a landmark essay, “it was important … to rebuild it so that it was not a windowless prison into which I was forced … but rather an open house.” In this image, the “house” in need of rebuilding st...
It is Morrison’s attention to the voices of the marginalised, of the “disremembered and unaccounted for,” that gave rise to the narrative structures of her novels. Rather than presenting a conventional chronological version of events told from a single standpoint, she combines multiple viewpoints or voices with disrupted chronologies and strategic ...
Although Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, and although numerous other awards and accolades have followed, and although she is read, studied and revered in numerous languages all over the world, our sense of loss at her passing should not blind us to the fact that for far too long she was at once a celebrity and insuffici...
Never resting on her laurels, throughout her professorship at Princeton, her Guest Curatorship at the Louvre in 2006-07, in her retirement and until the very end of her life, Toni Morrison remained profoundly alert to the way her books and essays were read, (mis)understood and (mis)represented. In her role as public intellectual and fearless social...
Aug 6, 2019 · Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate who died Monday night at the age of 88, was widely considered to be one of the great living American writers. And an enormous part of her literary legacy was the...
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Apr 8, 2015 · The black novel was important because it could “suggest what the conflicts are, what the problems are,” not necessarily as a means of solving them but as a way of recording and reflecting...
