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The Origin of Others Author: [US] Toni Morrison Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company
The Origin of Others Author: [US] Toni Morrison Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
★Introduced for the first time in the Chinese world! Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's literary tips for the current era
Complete collection:
Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech
The author's only short story, "Recitative"
Two Harvard University lectures: "Playing in the Dark" and "The Origin of the Other"
★As beautiful as jazz and as sharp as a scalpel, using literature to liberate those unheard voices
"There are no outsiders in this world, only different versions of ourselves."
"We die. Maybe that's the meaning of life. But we create language. Maybe that's the measure of our lives."
★Master literature open class, in-depth novel reading, dissecting the dark side of world literary classics
Hemingway, Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Saul Bellow...Examples of famous works + detailed interpretations, Morrison explores the world of literature from a new perspective
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This book is a wonderful gift to this repeatedly damaged world. In this journey built from personal experience, literary criticism and historical archives, Toni Morrison uses poetic words to guide us across the barriers of rhetoric and the screens of stories, to see the most unspeakable beauty of language itself, until the historical subtext hidden behind power is revealed to us one by one.
About the Author
Toni Morrison is an American writer. Born in Ohio in 1931, she worked as a senior editor at Random House and later taught at Princeton University and other schools. Her representative works include The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, Love, and Grace. She has won many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the American Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She died in New York in August 2019.