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: God's language. Dead of September 11 Foreigner's home Racism and fascism Home Wartalk War on error A race in mind: the press in deed Moral inhabitants Price of wealth, the cost of care Habit of art Individual artist Arts advocacy Sarah Lawrence commencement address Slavebody and the blackbody Harlem on my mind: contesting memory-meditation on museums, culture, and integration Women, race, and memory Literature and public life Nobel lecture in literature Cinderella's stepsisters Future of time: literature and diminished expectations - Interlude: Black matter(s). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Every book by Nobel laureate Morrison is a magnet for readers, and this is a particularly timely, involving, and provocative gathering of thought-pieces and inquiries.Peril - Part I: Foreigner's home. Morrison turns a critical eye on race, social politics, money, feminism, culture, and the press, with the essential mandate that each of us bears the responsibility for reaching beyond our superficial identifies and circumstances for a closer look at what it means to be human. Finally, starting with a touching eulogy of James Baldwin, Morrison takes a close look at her own work and that of writers and artists, including Baldwin, Achebe, Faulkner, and Bearden, and the profound impact of the arts. and how it has inexorably tied criminality and stigma to black bodies and created a legacy of racism that has outlived slavery. In a meditation on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Morrison examines the complex history of race relations in the U.S.
Even as technology has narrowed geographic distances, the global movement of populations of people has provoked fear and freighted perceptions of boundaries and frontiers.
She begins by focusing on notions of the foreigner in the churning global diaspora driven by economics and geopolitical conflict and challenging easy notions of identity. This collection of essays and speeches covers a wide variety of topics that resonate with current issues. For more than four decades, Morrison has written luminous fiction exploring the human condition through complex characters and nonfiction works steeped in sharp intelligence and imagination.
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