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1. www.abc.net.au › religion › how-toni-morrisonIn search of home: How Toni Morrison transformed American ...

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   Aug 12, 2019 · Focusing on the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s, this book is typically Morrisonian in its mock-heroic blending of Bildungsroman and epic paradigms, West African myth and African American ...

2. shc.stanford.edu › arcade › interventionsMorrison’s Things: Between History and Memory | Stanford ...

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   Toni Morrison began to formulate her engagement with the black past early in her career, in a project for which she served as editor and makeshift curator of objects. In 1974 Random House brought out a book that Morrison had spent 18 months assembling with four collectors of black memorabilia: a 200-page, oversized compendium that conveys the story of African and African-descended people in ...

3. academic.oup.com › cww › article-abstractToni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an ...

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   Oct 27, 2015 · The book enacts a detailed and meticulously theorized study of Morrison’s fiction from her 1970 debut, The Bluest Eye (1970), to her tenth novel, Home (2012). It persuasively situates the Morrisonian canon within Paul Gilroy’s now well-known paradigm (first outlined in The Black Atlantic (1993)): that of diasporic tradition as “the changing same” (4).

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4. www.english.ox.ac.uk › article › toni-morrisonToni Morrison: American literary giant made it her life’s ...

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   Aug 7, 2019 · Reputed to be one of Barack Obama’s favourite books, this text – which focused on the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s – is typically Morrisonian in its mock-heroic blending of the Bildungsroman (conventions about an individual’s progression to knowledge through experience), with classical epic paradigms, West African myth and African American folkloric wisdom.

5. oxfordre.com › literature › displayMorrison, Toni | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

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   Summary. Born in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, as Chloe Ardelia Wofford, the woman who is now Toni Morrison has experienced a life of great depth, length, and breadth—ranging from working as a housekeeper at age 12 to winning the Nobel Prize in Literature when she was 62. Extraordinarily, now 87 years old, Morrison has continued to write.

6. www.nytimes.com › 2022/01/28 › books‘Recitatif’ Review: Toni Morrison on Race and Culture - The ...

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   Jan 28, 2022 · 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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   What is a Morrisonian era book?

   • Focusing on the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s, this book is typically Morrisonian in its mock-heroic blending of Bildungsroman and epic paradigms, West African myth and African American folkloric wisdom.

   In search of home: How Toni Morrison transformed American literature

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   What was Morrison's first book?

   • That story became Morrison’s first book, The Bluest Eye (1970), a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent Black girl who is obsessed by white standards of beauty. The New York Times praised the book for “a prose so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.”

   Toni Morrison | Biography, Books, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, & Facts

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   Was Morrison a great African American writer?

   • The recognition of Morrison as a great writer who is an African American (and/or American) woman, rather than as a great African American (and/or American) woman writer; the acknowledgment of Morrison as a global cultural figure whose primary subject was the African American experience, is a process that is still by no means finished.

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   What is the subject of Elizabeth Morrison's writing?

   • To state the obvious, the subject of Morrison’s writing is the African American experience. Put together chronologically (by subject matter rather than in order of publication), her eleven novels examine key moments of American history.

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   When did Morrison become famous?

   • Morrison first gained widespread public recognition in 1977, after the publication of Song of Solomon. This novel won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, won an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and was selected as a Book-of-the-Month Club choice.

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   Who is Toni Morrison?

   • Toni Morrison was born (as Chloe Wofford) in the depressed rust belt town of Lorain, Ohio, to a family of modest financial means and rich cultural and emotional resources.

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8. www.britannica.com › biography › Toni-MorrisonToni Morrison | Biography, Books, Beloved, The Bluest Eye ...

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   Sep 26, 2024 · Toni Morrison (born February 18, 1931, Lorain, Ohio, U.S.—died August 5, 2019, Bronx, New York) was an American writer noted for her examination of Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community and for her poetic, luminous prose. Considered one of the greatest contemporary American novelists, she received ...