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The origin of others / Toni Morrison ; with a foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019 [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 1975- [Verfass. eines Vorworts]

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2017

xvii, 114 Seiten

Englisch

Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

978-0-674-97645-0 (Festeinband)

2017019077

OCoLC: 1003046608     

OCoLC: 1003046608 (aus SWB)     

LB 48610  | HU 4570      Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 18.06 (Angloamerikanische Literatur) ; 17.97 (Texte eines einzelnen Autors) ; 17.93 (Literarische Stoffe; literarische Motive; literarische Themen)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

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LOC-SH: Morrison, Toni -- Morrison, Toni ; African Americans in literature ; Blacks in literature ; Race in literature ; Racism in literature

Morrison, Toni / Morrison, Toni ; African Americans in literature ; Blacks in literature ; Race in literature ; Racism in literature

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.