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The Source of Self-Regard

The Source of Self-Regard

Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

by Toni Morrison
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 12/02/2019

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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, goodness in 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 theatre director Peter Sellars. In all, The Source of Self-Regard is a luminous and essential addition to Toni Morrison's oeuvre.
ISBN:
9781984840455
9781984840455
Category:
Speeches
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
12-02-2019
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
1
Dimensions (mm):
150x129x39mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison passed away in August 2019, aged 88.

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