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    The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations / Toni Morrison.

    • Title:The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations / Toni Morrison.
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    • Author/Creator:Morrison, Toni, author.
    • Published/Created:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
      ©2019
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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.
    • Medical Subjects: Race Relations--United States--personal narratives.
    • Genre/Form:Speeches.
      Essays.
      Meditations.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:ix, 354 pages ; 24 cm
    • 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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354).
    • ISBN:9780525521037 (hardcover)
      0525521038 (hardcover)
      9780525521112 (ebook)
    • 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.
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