Title The origin of others / Toni Morrison ; with a foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 114 pages) Series The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2016 Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2016. Contents Foreword / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Romancing slavery -- Being or becoming the stranger -- The color fetish -- Configurations of blackness -- Narrating the other -- The foreigner's home Summary 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 Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 17, 2019) Subject Morrison, Toni. SUBJECT Morrison, Toni fast Subject African Americans in literature. Black people in literature Race in literature. Racism in literature. Racism -- United States -- History Literature, Modern -- History and criticism Identity (Psychology) -- United States Equality -- United States -- History Belonging (Social psychology) -- United States Authors, Black -- United States -- Biography African American authors -- Biography Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography Belonging LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. African American authors African Americans in literature Authors, American Authors, Black Belonging (Social psychology) Black people in literature Equality Identity (Psychology) Literature, Modern Race in literature Race relations Racism Racism in literature SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History Subject United States Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Coates, Ta-Nehisi, writer of foreword. ISBN 9780674982628 0674982622 9780674983120 0674983122

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