The Source of Self-Regard

양장본 Hardcover

Morrison, Toni 저자(글)

Knopf Publishing Group · 2019년 02월 12일

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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 all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11; the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., and the last by a heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. In the writings and speeches included here, Morrison takes on contested social issues: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, "black matter(s)," and human rights. She looks at enduring matters of culture: the role of the artist in society, the literary imagination, the Afro-American presence in American literature, and in her Nobel lecture, the power of language itself. And here too is piercing commentary on her own work (including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, and Paradise) and that of others, among them, painter and collagist Romare Bearden, author Toni Cade Bambara, and theater director Peter Sellars. In all, The Source of Self-Regard is a luminous and essential addition to Toni Morrison's oeuvre.

작가정보

저자(글) Morrison, Toni

TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in New York.

목차

• Peril
  
  Part I THE FOREIGNERS HOME
  The Dead of September 11
  The Foreigners Home
  Racism and Fascism
  Home
  Wartalk
  The War on Error
  A Race in Mind: The Press in Deed
  Moral Inhabitants
  The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care
  The Habit of Art
  The Individual Artist
  Arts Advocacy
  Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address
  The Slavebody and the Blackbody
  Harlem on My Mind: Contesting Memory
  Meditation on Museums, Culture, and Integration
  Women, Race, and Memory
  Literature and Public Life
  The Nobel Lecture in Literature
  Cinderellas Stepsisters
  The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations
  
  Interlude BLACK MATTER(S)
  Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
  Race Matters
  Black Matter(s)
  Unspeakable Things Unspoken:
  The Afro-American Presence in American Literature
  Academic Whispers
  Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes
  Hard, True, and Lasting
  
  Part II GODS LANGUAGE
  James Baldwin Eulogy
  The Site of Memory
  Gods Language
  Grendel and His Mother
  The Writer Before the Page
  The Trouble with Paradise
  On Beloved
  Chinua Achebe
  Introduction of Peter Sellars
  Tribute to Romare Bearden
  Faulkner and Women
  The Source of Self-Regard
  Rememory
  Memory, Creation, and Fiction
  Goodbye to All That: Race, Surrogacy, and Farewell
  Invisible Ink: Reading the Writing and Writing the Reading
  
  Sources

기본정보

ISBN	9780525521037 ( 0525521038 )
발행(출시)일자	2019년 02월 12일
쪽수	368쪽
크기	157 * 236 * 43 mm / 703 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어