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An exploration of race from one of the twentieth centurys primary chroniclers of the African American experience. Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased an
The Site of Memory describes Toni Morrisons work of literary archaeology. She offers insights into how she arrives at a text through the act of imagination bound up with memory and shows how she explores two worlds the actual and the possible via the ni
Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved , which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged
A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida even L all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. T
"Beloved" er en roman skrevet af Toni Morrison, og den foregår i tiden efter den amerikanske borgerkrig. Bogen handler om kvinden Sethe, der engang var en slave på en farm, men som nu bor i Ohio sammen med datteren Denver. Sethe havde håbet på a
"God Help the Child" er en roman skrevet af Toni Morrison, og den handler om forholdet mellem kvinden Sweetness og hendes datter Bride. Sweetness har altid haft svært ved at elske Bride, fordi datterens hud er meget mørkere end forældrenes. Brid
Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past.... Morrison's voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America's outstanding post-war writers Guardian Joe Trace in his fifties, door-to-door salesm
'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter New York Times As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their
I 1800-tallets Ohio bliver en familie plaget af det overnaturlige, fordi de gemmer på en stor hemmelighed. "Beloved" er historien om kvinden Sethe, der sammen med sine børn er flyttet væk fra livet som slave ved plantagen Sweet Home i Kentucky.
Song of Solomon profoundly changed my life Marlon James Macon Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighbourhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. In 1930s America
"Recitatif" af Toni Morrison handler om de to piger Twyla og Roberta, der øjeblikkeligt bliver veninder, da de som 8-årige havner på det samme pigehjem. Med tiden mister de kontakten, men mødes igen efter flere år - nu som to kvinder. Toni Morri
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES Soon after a local eccentric leaps from a roo
Joe Trace in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfi
Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise . Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture o
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then theres Son. Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who embodies everything she loathes and desires.
Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved , which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of becomi
'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York Times As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of t
Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home. As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now comes Milkmans cha
INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe'
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise . Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam
New York Times Bestseller Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she belie
“Beloved” er en genudgivelse af Toni Morrisons prisvindende værk fra 1987. Historien er baseret på Margarete Gardners liv som slave, og blev filmatiseret i 1998. Bogen handler om Sethe, der er født ind i slaveri. Det lykkedes hende at slippe v
Pecola vokser op i de raceadskildte amerikanske 1940ere. Overalt møder hun modstand, foragtes både af sorte og hvide. Men i sine drømme har hun blå, blå øjne, som sin højtelskede lyshårede dukke. Morrisons debutroman fra 1970.
"Mouth Full of Blood" er en vital samling af Nobelprisvinderen Toni Morrisons betagende og stærke essays, taler og tekster. De udvalgte essays, taler og tekster i "Mouth Full of Blood" spænder over fire årtier, hvor Toni Morrison skild
Salomons sang er fortællingen om Milkman Dead og hans søgen efter sandheden om sit ophav, fra sin fødeby i det amerikanske Rustbælte til slægtens arnested dybt begravet i den amerikanske slavehistorie. Fil størrelse: 429183 KB Indlæst af: Tammi Øst
Sethe undslipper sit liv som slave på Sweet Home, men atten år senere hjemsøges hun stadig af minderne fra det smukke, forfærdelige sted. Minderne om Elskede, det eneste ord hun nåede at kalde sit døde barn, som hun måtte forlade i jorden på Sweet Home. F
"The Origin of Others" er Toni Morrisons gribende, skarpe og personlige refleksioner om race, frygt, grænser, immigration og om behovet for at høre til et sted. Hvad er race, og hvorfor har det en betydning? Hvad motiverer mennesket til at konst
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIE Pecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and bl
The Nobel Prize-winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison&
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from on
Nel Wright og Sula Peace vokser op sammen i Ohio som tætte veninder. De deler en hemmelighed som former dem, selv som voksne, hvor Nel bliver en afgørende figur blandt sorte amerikanere, mens Sula er udstødt.
Pecola vokser op i de raceadskildte amerikanske 1940'ere. Overalt møder hun modstand, foragtes både af sorte og hvide. Men i sine drømme har hun blå, blå øjne, som sin højtelskede lyshårede dukke. Morrisons debutroman fra 1970.
Salomons sang er fortællingen om Milkman Dead og hans søgen efter sandheden om sit ophav, fra sin fødeby i det amerikanske Rustbælte til slægtens arnested dybt begravet i den amerikanske slavehistorie.
Sethe undslipper sit liv som slave på Sweet Home, men atten år senere hjemsøges hun stadig af minderne fra det smukke, forfærdelige sted. Minderne om Elskede, det eneste ord hun nåede at kalde sit døde barn, som hun måtte forlade i jorden på Sweet Home.
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner "Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison's story." -- The Washin
I Forestillingen om de andre retter nobelprisvinder Toni Morrison sit undersøgende blik mod de emner, som har været omdrejningspunkter for hendes forfatterskab og genstand for de seneste års politiske debat: racisme, grænser, frygt og behovet for at høre
A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, from the great Toni Morrison. Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there
This is the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Through the enlightenment of one man the novel re
"The Source of Self-Regard" er en smuk samling af kloge ord og dybe overvejelser fra den verdensberømte amerikanske forfatter og essayist, Toni Morrison, der i 1993 vandt Nobelprisen i Litteratur. "The Source og Self-Regard" er en saml
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times --in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with
Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to put forth an argument for
The Bluest Eye , published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children c
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 hi