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23) Beloved
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Una madre: Sethe, la esclava que mata a su propia hija para salvarla del horror, para que la indignidad del presente no tenga futuro posible. Una hija: Beloved, la niña que desde su nacimiento se alimentó de leche mezclada con sangre, y poco a poco fue perdiendo contacto con la realidad por la voluntad de un cariño demasiado denso. Una experiencia: el crimen como única arma contra el dolor ajeno, el amor como única justificación ante el...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the Dark to The Source of Self-Regard--to tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision. Its sequence of flashes of revelation--remarkable for their linguistic felicity, keenness of psychological observation,...
26) Una bendicion
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
In order to pay off her debt, a slave woman offers an Anglo-Dutch trader her young daughter, Florens, who in turn feels abandoned by her slave mother and searches for love and acceptance.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 97
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual, James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. A self-described "transatlantic commuter" who spent much of his life in France, Baldwin joined a cosmopolitan sophistication to a fierce engagement with social issues. Early Novels and Stories presents the novels and short stories that established...
Series
Ingersoll lecture volume 2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time in book form. Perhaps because it is overshadowed by the more easily defined evil, goodness often escapes our attention. Recalling many literary examples, from Ahab to Coetzee's...
Series
American experience volume 16
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of a mostly forgotten crusader for Black and women's rights, Ida B. Wells Barnett, born in slavery on a plantation in Mississippi. She very effectively used the press and the written word to sway public opinion on matters from post civil war lynching to rights for women and helping secure freedom for supposed perpetrators of the Arkansas race riots. Toni Morrison reads passages from Ida's memoirs as part of the way the story is told.
34) Beloved
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.
"A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more--with...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
Publisher
FreeMind Ventures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"As a new chapter begins in this country, The Black List offers a dynamic and never-before-heard perspective from achievers of color. This series of inspired - and inspiring - observations on African American life in the 21st century forms a roll call of some of the most compelling politicians, writers, thinkers and performers ever to tackle their fields of endeavor." - Container.
