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1 online resource (xvii, 114 pages). |
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The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2016
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Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2016.
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| Summary |
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. If we learn racism by example, then literature plays an important part in the history of race in America, both negatively and positively. Morrison writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative. Expanding the scope of her concern, she also addresses globalization and the mass movement of peoples in this century. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Morrison's most personal work of nonfiction to date. |
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Foreword / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Romancing slavery -- Being or becoming the stranger -- The color fetish -- Configurations of blackness -- Narrating the other -- The foreigner's home. |
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Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Morrison, Toni.
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Morrison, Toni. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Black people in literature.
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Black people in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Racism in literature.
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Racism in literature. |
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Racism -- United States -- History.
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Racism. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
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Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Equality -- United States -- History.
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Equality. |
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Belonging (Social psychology) -- United States.
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Belonging (Social psychology) |
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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Race relations. |
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Authors, Black -- United States -- Biography.
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Authors, Black. |
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Biographies.
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African American authors -- Biography.
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African American authors -- Biography. |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
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20th century |
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Belonging (Social psychology.) |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Racism. |
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morrison, Toni. Origin of others. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017 0674976452 (DLC) 2017019077 (OCoLC)981983578 |
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Print version: Morrison, Toni. Origin of others. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017 9780674976450 (OCoLC)1003220709 |
| ISBN |
9780674982628 (electronic book) |
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0674982622 (electronic book) |
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9780674983120 (electronic book) |
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0674983122 (electronic book) |
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9780674976450 (hardback) |
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0674976452 (hardback) |
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