Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is
Toni Morrison's new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town.In life, Bill Cosey
'What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.' Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black
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 f
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed by Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This audacious vision from a master st
"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women."In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From th
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, viole
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
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New Yor
本書為馮品佳教授譯寫三十年前所完成的博士論文而成，聚焦女性成長小說及美國族裔女性小說家，以著名女作家摩里森（Toni Morrison）及湯亭亭（Maxine Hong Kingston）的作品為著眼點，探索美國弱勢族裔女性作家如何透過書寫成長小說，以文本建構身分認同，表達弱勢族裔女性遭遇的成長困境，說明她們身處的社會如何充斥著種族、階級，和性向／性別壓迫，而這些入世族裔女性如何在社會夾縫中求取成長發展之可能。誠如李有成教授在本書序中所言：「《美國族裔女性成長小說》論述傳統成長小說的文類成規之餘，一方面突出族裔女性作家的貢獻，另一方面則刻意援引第二波女性主義的強力介入。這兩方面的合縱連橫，為成長小說注入全新的元素，顛覆了長期以來視成長小說為西方白人中產階級男性的文學實踐的刻板印象。《美國族裔女性成長小說》以互文關係論證兩位女性小說家作品的歸屬情境，同時又自不同作品中歸納出兩位小說家之間的差異〔……〕書中關懷的議題與其理論及方法，對臺灣文學乃至於其他地區華文文學的研究而言，無疑仍然具有重要的啟發意義。」亦如單德興教授在本書序中所述：「全書進而深入探討兩位作家的美國弱勢族裔女性成長敘事，如何根據特定的族裔與性別的書寫位置，從四個面向修訂並擴大成長小說的傳統：強調被壓抑的記憶；呈現弱勢族裔女性面臨的多重風險；重視成長的過程，而非只專注於結果。」《美國族裔女性成長小說》為作者開始學術生涯之作，在此時重新譯寫，帶領讀者藉由閱讀隨作者經歷成長的過程，在如此飄渺動盪的世代，重新思考自我定位及成長發展之可能。
Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon Morrison's most recently published novels
Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon Morrison's most recently published novels
Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experien
Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experien
Toni Morrison’s wooded and verdant clearing, a central trope in her novel Beloved, is the model for Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing. This book attempts to reproduce the character and spirit
