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Raccontare storie per costruire storia: la vicenda della schiavitù nella narrativa di Toni Morrison
Storia delle Donne, 2009 In her essay, Telling stories to create history: slavery in Toni Morrison’s fiction, Itala Vivan analyzes the fictional work of the African American writer Toni Morrison and focuses especially on Beloved (1987) and A Mercy (2008), both stories of women ...
Itala Vivan
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Responses to Toni Morrison's oeuvre in Slovenia
Acta Neophilologica, 2003 Toni Morrison, the first African American female winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is certainly one of the modern artists whose novels have entered the world's modern literary canon.
Simona Midžić
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A new “Romen” Empire : Toni Morrison's love and the classics [PDF]
, 2007 An important but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's novels is their ambivalent relationship with classical tradition. Morrison was a classics minor while at Howard University, and her deployment of the cultural practices of ancient Greece and Rome
Roynon, Tessa Kate
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‘HURT RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE… BUT ALIVE AND WELL’: HEALING IN TONI MORRISON’S HOME
Odisea, 2017 : Toni Morrison’s novels can be read as stories of trauma and healing. In Home, Morrison wants to demystify the 1950s, a time when blacks still suffered extreme violence and racial hatred.
Manuela López Ramírez
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Intervista a Chiara Spallino sul Meridiano Mondadori dedicato a Toni Morrison
Iperstoria, 2014 Intervista a Chiara Spallino sul Meridiano Mondadori dedicato a Toni ...
Elisa Bordin
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Medeia escrava. Sobre Amada de Toni Morrison
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022 O ensaio traz uma leitura do romance Amada, de Toni Morrison, tendo como foco a evidente semelhança existente entre a história escrita pela autora contemporânea e o mito clássico de Medeia, e ressaltando as distinções de uma em relação a outra.
Imaculada Kangussu
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“The Beloved Purple of Their Eyes: Inheriting Bessie Smith’s Politics of Sexuality”
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2007 Bessie Smith has traditionally been regarded as The Empress of the Blues. Armed with a potent voice and a daring performance, she became one of the first and most popular African-American artists of all time.
Marta Miquel-Baldellou
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Revista Fim do Mundo, 2023 Individual freedom appears within Western liberal thinking as the supreme value of civic, social, and political life. This intellectual tradition tends to frame freedom as the right to unrestrained action and non-commitment enjoyed by the central ...
Bennett Brazelton
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"Quiet as it's Kept": Secrecy and Silence in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Paradise [PDF]
, 2011 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Secrets and silence appear frequently in the work of Toni Morrison. In three novels, The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Paradise, she repeats a specific phrase that acts as a signal to the reader ...
Smith, Whitney Renee
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Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011 A review of Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. The Toni Morrison Lecture Series (Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010).
Alicia E. Ellis
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