Toni Morrison: Conversations by Carolyn C. Denard (Editor)Call Number: Olin Library PS3563.O8749 Z46 2008
As a chronicler of the African American experience in fiction and as an incisive cultural commentator in her essays and lectures, Toni Morrison is regarded as one of the nation's most distinguished novelists and intellectuals. Her novels are richly layered narratives that explore the meanings of tragedy and myth in individual lives. Morrison's perspectives on American life and culture, rendered with a deep understanding of the consequences of history and the power of art, are always compelling. Toni Morrison: Conversations includes interviews with the Nobel Laureate that bring into the foreground Morrison's comments on American literature and society, the academy, and her own work. She discusses growing up in Lorain, Ohio, her role as editor at Random House, the continuing evolution of her style, her teaching philosophy, and her most recent novels Jazz, Paradise, and Love. This volume includes interviews and profiles from the 1970s and 1980s that were not collected in Conversations with Toni Morrison (1993) and a rich collection of new interviews published together for the first time, including conversations with Paula Giddings, Salman Rushdie, Charlie Rose, and Elissa Schappell.
Toni Morrison: A Biography by Call Number: Olin Library PS3563.O8749 Z753 2010This book is a revealing look at the life and work of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. * Presents a detailed timeline of Toni Morrison's life and career as a writer and academic * Offers a comprehensive bibliography of Morrison's works along with a bibliography of critical studies of her novels and electronic resources
The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 by Call Number: Africana Library PS3563.O754 L4 1994Toni Morrison's speech, given at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm in December 1993, is a profound meditation on language and our responsibility towards it. She weaves her thoughts around a folk tale, which compares language with a fragile bird, a living being which can be paralysed or deadened by misuse. She attacks the obscuring language of the state, the vacuous soundbite language of the media, the rigid, limiting language of academia and science. It is an inspiring and bold statement - moving, allusive and powerful.
