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The Origin of OthersAmerica'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
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.Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 09/18/2017
ISBN: 9780674976450
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.20h x 4.70w x 0.60d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2017
Booklist 08/01/2017 pg. 14
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2017 pg. 31
Shelf Awareness 10/10/2017
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Color: Denim Blue
I ordered this bag without reading the reviews. I actually read them after I ordered it and it arrived today.
After receiving the product I do agree with some of the other reviews. I REALLY wanted to give this five stars but I didn't like that the purse was shipped in a sealed vacuum bag which flattened the purse and put it in a purse bag. I do love the leather, material, and style of the bag. I also love that it is a great size. I also think the price is a little expensive considering that the purse is out of form and placed in a plastic sealed bag. Because I've always wanted a denim hobo style type bag I decided to keep it and I ordered a purse insert which cost me another twenty plus dollars so that when I wear the purse it won't tip over when I sit it down.
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BULKY & BUCKLING HANDLES
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The handles are bulky, and the leather buckles where you normally would hold it which is very uncomfortable. If you try to use the shoulder strap, the handles don't come off and get in the way when holding the purse against your side. Unfortunately, I first used it well past the eligible return date. I'm so disappointed. I would not recommend this product.
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