Toni Morrison Books

A box set of Toni Morrison's principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner). Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. This spellbinding novel tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who escapes to Ohio, but eighteen years later is still not free. In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty and yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes, that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. With Song of Solomon, Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as she follows Milkman Dead from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, introducing an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.

“Knowledge is what’s important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.” — TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews — including her first and last — Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a “national treasure”) details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family’s stories — such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South. With an introduction by her close friend, poet Nikki Giovani, Morrison hereby weaves yet another fascinating and inspiring narrative — that of herself.

A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone, slim Chatto hardback for the first time. In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Another work of genius by this masterful writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif, a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.

Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. The collection is structured in three parts and these are introduced by a prayer for the dead of 9/11, a meditation on Martin Luther King and a eulogy for James Baldwin

For the first time, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Toni Morrison's eight children's' books are collected in one volume, with a Foreword by Oprah Winfrey.

Everybody knows the record the stuff of almanacs, trade magazines and clipping services. A handful know the man. But only Muhammad Ali knows his life as he lived it. The Greatest is Ali's own story. For six years he worked, traveled and talked with Richard Durham, a writer with a stunning talent, and the result is mesmerizing in its brilliance, drama, humanity and sheer entertainment. This is no documented scrapbook of wins and losses strung together with anecdotes; nor is it a thin potpourri of locker room gags. This book, like Ali who has incited every reaction except indifference goes straight to the place where responses to him have always been the gut. When the history of the twentieth century is finally recorded, it must include Muhammad Ali. He is "The Greatest."

An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.

Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal enquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a pre-eminent place among modern novelists, Playing in the Dark provides a daring new perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. ‘Morrison’s reflections are vital not simply to conceptions of racial identity but also to those of American literary production . . . In these essays she examines “the impact of racism on those who perpetuate it” . . . Morrison’s daring – as a writer, a black woman – in addressing the issue in contemporary America is a measure of her integrity and courage’ Claire Messud, Guardian ‘The significance lies in the many permutations that her dazzling prose is able to work on the idea of white America’s “self-reflexive contemplation of fabricated, mythological Africanism” . . . Playing in the Dark is less a book for scholars than for the broad reading public – or those scholars, it should be added, who still doubt that race has been, and remains, a pervasive topic in the American imagination’ Eric J. Sundquist, Virginia Quarterly Review ‘Morrison’s real accomplishment is to recall the work of the true pioneers who first approached questions about race and imagination with urgency and rigorous open-mindedness’ New Republic

THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the fo

This novel takes readers into a magical and richly peopled world which encompasses four generations of African American life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

REA's MAXnotes for Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, A NovelMAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions.MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.

Childhood friends Sula Peace and Nel Wright part company when Nel chooses to remain in their small Ohio hometown where she marries and raises a family, and Sula leaves for the excitement of college and the big city, but they both must face the consequences of their choices when Sula returns home after an absense of ten years

The book delves into the complexities surrounding the O.J. Simpson case, exploring its cultural and social implications. Co-edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, it offers a profound analysis of race, identity, and justice in America, illuminating the case's impact on society and media. Through various essays, it captures the multifaceted narratives and emotions that emerged during this highly publicized trial, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the issues at play.

Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. For Sethe, Paul D. Halle and the others, the benign imprisonment of Sweet Home is destroyed. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby.

A stunning debut novel-unexpected, tautly written, suspenseful-that touches on some of the most profound questions we have about war as it tells us a haunting story of a single mother, and her son, a member of the US Special Operations Forces.

"A vivid and emotive re-exploration of Shakespeare's Desdemona from Othello, republished in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series"--

A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and his home.

Morrison's eagerly awaited new novel, "Jazz," is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.

A new edition for a new world of one of literary legend Toni Morrison's first picture books with her son, Slade Morrison. With an afterword by the inimitable Jewell Parker Rhodes.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. In ihrem jüngsten Roman verdichtet die Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Toni Morrison all die Themen, die ihre Karriere als wichtigste afroamerikanische Schriftstellerin der Gegenwart geprägt haben. Bride ist eine junge, attraktive Frau, die ihren beruflichen Erfolg genießt. Doch sie wird mit ihrer schwierigen Kindheit konfrontiert, als sie sich in den geheimnisvollen Booker verliebt. Die Beziehung der beiden gerät in Gefahr, als Bride und Booker von ihren frühen Gewalterfahrungen heimgesucht werden. Ein vielschichtiges Buch über Eltern und Kinder, Liebe und Gewalt, Schwarz und Weiß, Reichtum und Armut, das sich gut als Einstieg in Toni Morrisons literarische Welt eignet. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2 – C1 (GER) Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - Even L - All Are Women Obsessed By Bill Cosey. More Than The Wealthy Owner Of The Famous Cosey Hotel And Resort, He Shapes Their Yearnings For A Father, Husband, Lover, Guardian, And Friend, Yearnings That Dominate The Lives Of These Women Long After His Death. Yet Cosey Himself Is At The Mercy Of A Troubled Past And A Spellbinding Woman, 'A Sporting Woman', Named Celestial. This Audacious Vision From A Master Storyteller Of The Nature Of Love - Its Appetite, Its Sublime Possession, And Its Dread - Is Rich In Characters And Dramatic Events, And In Its Profound Understanding Of How Alive The Past Can Be. Sensual, Elegiac And Unforgettable, Love Reflects The Different Facets Of Love, Shifting From Desire And Lust And Ultimately Comes Full Circle To That Indelible, Overwhelming First Love That Marks Us Forever.

In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.

REA's MAXnotes for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.

Everyone knows that in the story of the Tortoise and the Hare the slow and steady tortoise wins always wins. Or does he? In this energetic retelling Hare wins but the Tortoise has the story to tell. So you decide, what makes a winner?

Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over a disputed memory. An ex-slave is haunted by a lonely, rebukeful ghost, bent on bringing their past home. Strange and unexpected, yet always stirring, Morrison's writing on race sinks us deep into the heart and mind of our troubled humanity.Includes selections from the books Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Belovedby Toni MorrisonVINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series-Sisters by Louisa May AlcottLove by Jeanette WintersonBabiesby Anne EnrightLanguageby Xiaolu Guo

Über welche, die böse sind„ - Ein Bilderbuch der Nobelpreisträgerin Toni Morrison in einer Übersetzung von Harry Rowohlt Toni Morrison und ihr Sohn Slade zeigen in ihrem zweiten gemeinsamen Bilderbuch auf humoristische Weise, wie Kinder Bösartigkeit und Ärger in ihrer Umwelt erfahren. Für sie hat Bösartigkeit verschiedene Formen und Ausmaße. Sie kann sowohl geflüstert als auch laut geschrieen sein. Böse Leute können lächeln oder finster schauen. “Dies ist ein Buch über welche, die böse sind. Manche Bösen sind groß. Manche Kleinen sind böse."

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Die amerikanische Literaturnobelpreis-Trägerin Toni Morrison hat ihr Leben als Schriftstellerin der Rassenfrage und dem Rassismus gewidmet. Nun meldet sie sich mit klugen, schneidend klaren Worten zum Thema Rassismus in Amerika. Die sechs hier abgedruckten Texte basieren auf Vorlesungen an der Harvard University im Sommer 2016. Es sind Betrachtungen über Rasse und Rassismus, die die Zerrissenheit der amerikanischen Gesellschaft widerspiegeln und durch die Wahl eines das Land spaltenden Präsidenten sowie den zunehmenden, unverbrämten Alltagsrassismus eine brennende Aktualität bekommen. Wie und wann entsteht das Konzept des Andersseins? Angeboren ist es ja nicht. Toni Morrison beantwortet diese Frage mit persönlichen Erinnerungen aus ihrer Kindheit, erzählt von eigenen Familien- und Berufserfahrungen und spricht über reale Fälle, die sie zu ihren Romanen inspiriert haben. Zudem macht sich Toni Morrison Gedanken zur Geschichte und Funktion von Literatur in einer latent rassistischen Gesellschaft. Sie leitet den literarischen Rassismus aus der Romantisierung des Sklaventums her und belegt mit Beispielen von Faulkner bis Hemingway die ständige Angst vor den schwarzen Gesichtern. Dabei schlägt sie einen weltpolitischen Bogen, von der individuellen Herkunft bis hin zur Globalisierung, zu Grenzen und Fluchtbewegungen. Eine große Autorin erhebt ihre Stimme. Ein brisantes Buch, das Mut macht und Hoffnung gibt.

Un romanzo maestoso, di straordinaria intensità, in cui si narra la vita di Sethe, una giovane e indomabile donna di colore che, negli anni precedenti alla Guerra Civile, si ribella alla propria schiavitù e fugge al Nord, verso la libertà. La sua vicenda si intreccia con quella di altri indimenticabili personaggi in un racconto che, come ha scritto nella sua Postfazione Franca Cavagnoli, curatrice del volume, "si insinua nei meandri del tempo, lasciando scaturire ora qua ora là il non detto, scaglie di ricordi troppo penosi per essere contenuti, dolorosi frammenti di memoria". Con questo libro Toni Morrison, Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, ha voluto rivolgere un invito ai bianchi e agli afroamericani: "Tornare a quella parte della propria storia che troppi hanno rimosso.

Umieramy. Być może to właśnie stanowi sens życia. Ale tworzymy język. Być może to jest miarą naszego życia. Pierwszy w Polsce wybór esejów, przemówień i medytacji Toni Morrison. To zbiór błyskotliwych, osobistych, ale i zaskakująco aktualnych tekstów doskonałe połączenie jej literackiego geniuszu z refleksją nad kondycją współczesnego świata. Noblistka podejmuje sporne kwestie społeczne: praw człowieka, rasy, płci, podziałów i wykluczeń. Skupia uwagę na osobach czarnych, kobietach, cudzoziemcach, nie pomijając tematów dotykających nas na co dzień: globalizacji, poczucia obcości i osamotnienia czy wojny. Przygląda się sprawom kultury: roli artysty_ki w społeczeństwie, wyobraźni literackiej, a w wykładzie noblowskim sile języka. Zostawia także przenikliwe komentarze do swoich powieści. Morrison przypomina o budowaniu wspólnoty, o wyborze my zamiast ja. A przesłanie, które wybrzmiewa z jej tekstów, może stać się dla nas cennym drogowskazem: Nie pozwalajcie, by ktokolwiek was przekonywał, że tak właśnie wygląda świat i tak właśnie musi być.

"Belongs in the category ... of enduring American literature." -- Saturday Review Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

In de woelige jaren na de Burgeroorlog spookt de geest van een vermoord kind in Ohio in huis van een voormalige slaaf. Deze boze, destructieve geest breekt spiegels, laat zijn vingerafdrukken in een taart icing, en maakt in het algemeen het leven moeilijk voor Sethe en haar familie. Maar toch vindt zij op een vreemde manier troost hierin, want de geest is die van haar eigen dode baby die nooit een naam kreeg, en waaraan enkel gedacht wordt als Beminde>.

Tytułowe Czarne Diamenty to one: Czarne poetki amerykańskie, Afroamerykanki, które od kilku dziesięcioleci przyczyniają się do zasadniczej zmiany statusu czarnoskórej społeczności w Stanach Zjednoczonych, kraju systemowego rasizmu od czasów niewolnictwa. Książka zawiera wiersze dziesięciu poetek związanych z ruchem Czarnej Sztuki. Ich twórczość oraz działalność społeczna dopełniają się wzajemnie, a ich sława sięga dalej niż Ameryka. Oto one: Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, AI Ogawa, bell hooks, Alice Walker, June Jordan, Jayne Cortez. Dodałam do tego grona jeszcze jedną autorkę: powieściopisarkę i eseistkę, laureatkę Nagrody Nobla, wielką Toni Morrison i jej pięć wierszy – nieznanych szerszemu gronu czytelników i krytyków, opublikowanych jedynie w bibliofilskim wydaniu. Jest to pierwszy polski tom przekładów poezji ruchu Czarnej Sztuki, poezji o wyjątkowej sile rażenia, o niepowtarzalnym ładunku grozy, mroku, gniewu i mocy przetrwania; poezji odzwierciedlającej dramat życia na pograniczu wielu światów, kultur, języków, tożsamości i wierzeń; poezji związanej z dramatami pogranicza: niesprawiedliwością, krzywdą, lękiem, pogardą, zagrożeniem różnymi formami wykluczenia i marginalizacji. Halina Cieplińska

Delaware, 1682: Die kleine Florens, nicht älter als sieben oder acht Jahre, wird zur Begleichung einer Schuld an den Farmer und Geldverleiher Jacob Vaark verkauft. In Florens’ Leben ändert sich dadurch alles. Sie gehört nun zu Vaarks Haushalt, zusammen mit seiner Frau Rebekka, die nicht freiwillig in die Neue Welt gekommen ist, mit der Hausangestellten Lina, die als eine der wenigen ihres Stammes die Pocken überlebt hat, und mit der geheimnisvollen Sorrow, die nach einem Schiffbruch gerettet wurde. Als Vaark stirbt, kämpfen die vier Frauen zusammen gegen die harsche Natur und die Rückkehr der Wildnis auf die Farm. Sie alle tragen ihre Geschichte mit sich, sie alle werden von den Geistern der Vergangenheit heimgesucht.

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Tragický príbeh osamelého, nemilovaného, nepekného čierneho dievčatka Pecoly, ktorej najväčšou túžbou je mať modré oči...

Komorní příběh dvou černošských rodin s dospívajícími dcerami z prostředí středozápadního amerického průmyslového města čtyřicátých let. V příběhu se soustřeďuje na tragické a patologické důsledky amerického kultu fyzické krásy jako podmínky životního úspěchu. Hrdinkou je 12leté děvčátko z periferie, které v rozhárané rodině nenalézá ani ocenění, ani lásku a proto pochybuje o své lidské hodnotě vůbec. Vypravěčkou hrdinčina pasivního příběhu je dívka z rodiny, která je charakteristická vědomím své rasové příslušnosti a tím je i imunní vůči otrockému přizpůsobování bělošským mýtům.

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