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Toni Morrison : the last interview and other conversations / [with an introduction by Nikki Giovanni].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Last interview seriesPublisher: Brooklyn, New York : Melville House, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: ix, 170 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1612198732
  • 9781612198736
Subject(s):
Contents:
Interview with Toni Morrison / interview with Donald M. Suggs, Jr. -- Toni Morrison on capturing a mother's 'compulsion' to nurture in Beloved / interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Toni Morrison on love and writing, and dealing with race in literature / interview with Bill Moyers -- The Salon interview : Toni Morrison / interview with Zia Jeffery -- National visionary leadership project / video interview with Camille O. Cosby -- Toni Morrison's haunting resonance / interview with Christopher Bollen -- The last interview / interview with Alain Elkaan.
Summary: "In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family's stories -- such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South. With an introduction by her close friend, poet Nikki Giovani, Morrison hereby weaves yet another fascinating and inspiring narrative -- that of herself."--Amazon.
List(s) this item appears in: Black voices
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Knowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it." - TONI MORRISON

In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews - including her first and last - Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family's stories - such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South. With an introduction by her close friend, poet Nikki Giovani, Morrison hereby weaves yet another fascinating and inspiring narrative - that of herself.

Interview with Toni Morrison / interview with Donald M. Suggs, Jr. -- Toni Morrison on capturing a mother's 'compulsion' to nurture in Beloved / interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Toni Morrison on love and writing, and dealing with race in literature / interview with Bill Moyers -- The Salon interview : Toni Morrison / interview with Zia Jeffery -- National visionary leadership project / video interview with Camille O. Cosby -- Toni Morrison's haunting resonance / interview with Christopher Bollen -- The last interview / interview with Alain Elkaan.

"In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family's stories -- such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South. With an introduction by her close friend, poet Nikki Giovani, Morrison hereby weaves yet another fascinating and inspiring narrative -- that of herself."--Amazon.

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