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The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations / Toni Morrison.
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Title:The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations / Toni Morrison.
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Author/Creator:Morrison, Toni, author.
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Published/Created:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
©2019
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: PS3563.O8749 A6 2019
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:American essays.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Essays--Women authors.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American--Women authors.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors.
Meditations--African American authors.
Meditations--Women authors.
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Medical Subjects: Race Relations--United States--personal narratives.
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Genre/Form:Speeches.
Essays.
Meditations.
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Edition:First edition.
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Description:ix, 354 pages ; 24 cm
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Summary:"One of the most celebrated and revered writers in the history of American literature 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 hallmarks. 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 Ir., 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 aspects of culture: the role of the artist in society, 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, Sala, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, and Paradise) and that of others, among them painter and collagist Romare Bearden, author Toni Cade Bambara, and theater director Peter Sellars. In all, The Source of Self-Regard is a luminous and essential addition to Toni Morrison's oeuvre."--Jacket.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354).
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ISBN:9780525521037 (hardcover)
0525521038 (hardcover)
9780525521112 (ebook)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Foreigner's Home
Dead of September 11
Foreigner's Home
Racism and Fascism
Home
Wartalk
War on Error
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) Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
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
pt. II God's Language
James Baldwin Eulogy
Site of Memory
God's Language
Grendel and His Mother
Writer Before the Page
Trouble with Paradise
On Beloved
Chinua Achebe
Introduction of Peter Sellars
Tribute to Romare Bearden
Faulkner and Women
Source of Self-Regard
Rememory
Memory, Creation, and Fiction
Goodbye to All That: Race, Surrogacy, and Farewell
Invisible Ink: Reading the Writing and Writing the Reading.