Name: The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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Author: Morrison, Toni ; Coates, Ta-Nehisi
ISBN: 9780674976450

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The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Toni Morrison

Preface by

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Language

English

Pages

136

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

18.3 x 11.9 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9780674976450

Synopsis "The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)"

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity in The Origin of Others. In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially literature. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Camara Laye are among the authors she examines. Readers of Morrison's fiction will welcome her discussions of some of her most celebrated books--Beloved, Paradise, and A Mercy. If we learn racism by example, then literature plays an important part in the history of race in America, both negatively and positively. Morrison writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative. Expanding the scope of her concern, she also addresses globalization and the mass movement of peoples in this century. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Morrison's most personal work of nonfiction to date.

Toni Morrison

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(Ohio, 1931 - New York, 2019) Chloe Ardelia Wofford, known under the pseudonym Toni Morrison, is an African American storyteller. She alternated her job as a Humanities professor at Princeton University with literary activity. In her works, she addressed the issues of the black population in the United States, especially the situation of women. She was the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in August 2019 in the small New York village of Grand View-on-Hudson at the age of eighty-eight.

In her works, she addressed the issues of the black population in the United States, as well as other themes such as identity, memory, racism, or cultural resistance. Among her most notable novels are Beloved, with which she won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon.

Her literary style combines deep psychological introspection with unique lyricism, marking a before and after in American literature. Through her work, Morrison left a timeless legacy, giving voice to silenced stories and challenging dominant power structures.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Ta-Nehisi Coates was born in Baltimore in 1975, is a writer, journalist, and American activist, known for his deep analysis of the history and African-American experience in the United States.
Son of William Paul Coates, former member of the Black Panthers and founder of Black Classic Press, and Cheryl Waters, a teacher, Coates grew up in an environment that valued literature and political awareness. He studied at Howard University, although he did not graduate, and began his journalistic career in media such as The Village Voice and Time.

Among his most influential works we find Between the World and Me (2015), written as a letter to his son, where he reflects on black identity and racial violence in the United States. This book won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer finalist.

In addition to his work as a writer, Coates has been an editor at The Atlantic and has written comics for Marvel, including series of Black Panther and Captain America. He has received numerous awards, such as the MacArthur Fellowship in 2015 and the George Polk Award. Currently, he is a professor at Howard University, where he holds the Sterling Brown chair in the English Department.

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