Toni Morrison Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

The Site of Memory describes Toni Morrison's 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 nimbus of emotion surrounding the journey of an image: from picture to meaning to text. Exploring the radical possibilities of literature and the limits of history, Morrison finds a truth deeper than documentation in the silences and omissions in African American narratives of the past. Fiction, for Morrison, is a practice of ethical restoration: a means to recover what history has neglected through the 'flooding' of a rush of imagination. In The Site of Memory, ancestral presence, emotion and imagination converge. If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

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.

One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting today as when it was first published -- perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

In dit korte verhaal uit 1983, het enige korte verhaal dat Morrison ooit schreef, ontmoeten we Twyla en Roberta, die elkaar kennen sinds ze acht jaar oud waren en vier maanden samenwoonden in het St. Bonaventure-onderkomen. Oorspronkelijk onafscheidelijk, verliezen ze elkaar uit het oog naarmate ze ouder worden, om elkaar later weer te vinden in een diner, een supermarkt en opnieuw tijdens een protest. Schijnbaar aan de tegenovergestelde uiteinden van elk probleem en voortdurend met elkaar in conflict bij elke ontmoeting, kunnen de twee vrouwen de diepe band die hun gedeelde ervaring heeft gesmeed niet ontkennen. Recitatif houdt de rassen van Twyla en Roberta gedurende het hele verhaal ambigu. Morrison beschreef Recitatif als "een experiment in het verwijderen van alle raciale codes uit een verhaal over twee personages van verschillende rassen waarvoor raciale identiteit cruciaal is." We weten dat de een wit is en de ander zwart, maar wie is wie? En wie heeft gelijk over de race van de vrouw die de meisjes in het tehuis plaagden?

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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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

When the story opens on May 11, 2011, Sara’s son, Jason, has been missing for nine days from a Special Operations Forces mission on the same night as the Bin Laden raid. Smart, young, and bohemian, Sara had dreams of an Ivy League university for Jason that were not out of reach, followed by a job on the Hill where there were connections through his father. The events of 9/11 changed Jason’s mind and Sara accepted that, steeping herself in all things military to better understand her son’s days, while she works as a freelance editor for Washington policy makers and wonks. Now she knows nothing more about Jason’s fate than the crowds of well-wishers and media camped out in the driveway in front of her small farmhouse in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, waiting to hear news. In a series of flashbacks we learn about Jason’s dashing absentee father, a man who said he was a writer but whose career seemed to involve being in faraway places. And through letters Jason writes home from his training and early missions, we get a picture of a strong, compassionate leader who is wise beyond his years and modest about his abilities. Those exceptional abilities will give Jason the chance to participate in a wholly different level of assignment, the most important and dangerous of his career. At the end Sara will find herself on an unexpected journey full of surprise.

"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.

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?

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.

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."

Dit boek schetst een beeld van de hedendaagse zwarte vrouwen, van academisch niveau tot ex-gedetineerde; van de zwarte vrouwen in de jaren zestig in de Civil Rights Movement en daarbuiten; en van zwarte vrouwen in de jaren veertig. De plot draait om de vrouwen rond de inmiddels overleden hoteleigenaar Bill Cosey: zijn kokkin, zijn eerste vrouw, zijn schoondochter en kleindochter Christine.

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.

De waarden van een geheel uit Afrikaans-Amerikaanse inwoners bestaand stadje en die van vier jonge vrouwen uit een nabijgelegen voormalig klooster botsen met elkaar, wat leidt tot een gewelddadige confrontatie.

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.

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.

In de jaren twintig vermoordt een zwarte man van middelbare leeftijd in Harlem zijn 18-jarige vriendin, waar zijn echtgenote het hare van denkt.

Een door blanken opgevoed zwart model wordt verliefd op een arme neger.

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>.

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.

"Tar Baby," audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds.

Kniha je ságou štyroch generácií černochov, z ktorých prvá zažila ešte otrokárstvo.

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

Een negerjongen gaat samen met vriend op zoek naar zijn afkomst en achtergrond in de geboortestreek van zijn voorouders.

Milkman Dead wurde kurz nach dem Selbstmord eines Nachbarn geboren, der vergeblich versuchte zu fliegen. Den Rest seines Lebens wird auch er versuchen zu fliegen. Mit diesem brillant gestalteten Roman verwandelt Toni Morrison die Coming-of-Age-Geschichte so kühn wie Saul Bellow oder Gabriel García Márquez. Während sie Milkman von seiner Stadt im Rust Belt zu den Ursprüngen seiner Familie folgt, führt Morrison eine ganze Reihe von Strebern und Seherinnen, Lügnern und Mördern ein, die Bewohner einer vollständig verwirklichten schwarzen Welt.

To commemorate Morrison's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Knopf here republishes her full canon of novels. This edition of The Bluest Eye (1970) contains a new afterword by the author.