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• The Official Website of The Toni Morrison Society

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  The Toni Morrison Society is a non-profit literary organization that consists of scholars and lay readers of Morrison's works from around the world. Wealth of resources that focus on the teaching, reading, and critical examination of Toni…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• C-SPAN's Book TV program "In Depth" with Toni Morrison

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  Toni Morrison's appearance on C-SPAN's Book TV show, In Depth aired February 4, 2001. In this three hour interview Morrison talks about her childhood, teaching, and writing. She also takes questions from viewers. Check out the C-SPAN web…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• NYPL Podcast #97: Toni Morrison and Angela Davis on Connecting for Progress

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  Toni Morrison and Angela Davis are featured on NYPL's podcast discussing Frederick Douglass, Education, Libraries, Literacy, and Liberation.

• The Bluest Eye

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  Toni Morrison was 39 years old when her debut novel, The Bluest Eye was published in 1970. Set in Morrison's hometown of Lorain, Ohio it tell the story of an eleven year old girl, Pecola Breedlove who wishes for blue eyes. In this novel,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sula

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  Toni Morrison's second novel Sula was published in 1973. It is set in a small town in Ohio focusing on an area known as the Bottom which is an African American community. The novel centers around the female friendship between Nel Wright…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Song of Solomon

  Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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  Song of Solomon was Toni Morrison's third novel published in 1977 and received critical attention winning the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is set in a Michigan and focuses on Macon Dead (nicknamed "Milkman") and more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tar Baby

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  Published in 1981, Tar Baby is Morrison's 4th novel and centers on the explosive love affair between Jadine Childs and Son Green. This is Morrison's first novel set in current day and also her first novel to take place mostly outside of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Recitatif

  a Story

  Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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  Toni Morrison wrote only one short story in her lifetime, Recitatif published in 1983. The short story focuses on the friendship between Twyla and Roberta who meet when they are roommates at a shelter when they are eight years old. After…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beloved

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  In 1983, Morrison left her job in publishing to devote her time to writing. Morrison describes the new found freedom as filling her with panic but also joy. It is at this moment, she pondered about what "free" means to women. In asking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lecture and Speech of Acceptance, Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Delivered in Stockholm on the Seventh of December, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-three

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  Toni Morrison's acceptance speech for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature is beautifully poetic. Morrison gives us a rallying cry: "Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Playing in the Dark

  Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

  Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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  Toni Morrison asks the question as a scholar of American literature as well as an author herself, that until recently, readers have been assumed to be white and how has that has impacted the literary imagination? This work is the result of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jazz

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  Published in 1992, Jazz is a historical novel set in Harlem in the 1920s. The unnamed narrator tells the story of Joe and Violet Trace. Like jazz the musical form, the novel can feel maddening and disjointed and beautiful and complex with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dancing Mind

  Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the Sixth of November, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-six

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  Upon accepting her award of the National Book Foundation Medal, Toni Morrison expounds upon the life of both reading and writing. It's impassioned and riveting and poetic. For example, Morrison states, "The peace I am thinking of is the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beloved

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  Film adaptation of Toni Morrison's 1987 novel Beloved was released in 1998. Directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey Danny Glover, and Melanie Thandiwe Newton, it reflected the novel's nonlinear narrative and psychological…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paradise

  Morrison, Toni 1931-2019

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  Toni Morrison's Paradise is set in Ruby, an Oklahoma settlement founded in 1950. Morrison explains she wanted to create a gated community for only Black Americans who are refusing entrance to anyone who is mixed race. Paradise was banned…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  Toni Morrison's 8th novel, Love, provides a look at a seaside hotel owned by Bill Cosey. The novel explores secrets of the past that haunt the present. The novel asks readers to question, "How do you know people? And in Morrison fashion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Margaret Garner

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  Toni Morrison wrote the libretto for the two act opera, Margaret Garner which is based on the events of runaway slave who committed infanticide. Morrison had first examined Garner's life when she used it as the basis for her novel Beloved.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Mercy

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  In her 9th novel published in 2008,Toni Morrison examines the roots of racism. Set in Colonial America, Morrison using the rich literary tradition of the pastoral, writes one that is a postcolonial pastoral. It is not a paradise or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Moves at the Margin

  Selected Nonfiction

  Morrison, Toni. 1931-2019

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  Collection of Toni Morrison's writing covering three decades from her early days as an editor at Random House, to writing her first novels, to teaching at Princeton. Books is divided into sections focusing on family and history, writers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Book

  Harris, M. A., 1908-1977

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  While working at Random House, Toni Morrison published The Black Book which is a encyclopedic look at the African American experience which she described as being a "requirement for our national health." It is a collage of historic…Read moreRead more of this annotation