The Toni Morrison book club / Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Cassandra Jackson, and Piper Kendrix Williams.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: vii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780299324940
- 029932494X
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 374.22 B471 | Available | 33111009423860 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison's novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from first love and Soul Train to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, the authors take up what it means to read challenging literature collaboratively and to learn in public as an act of individual reckoning and social resistance.
Framing their book club around collective secrets, the group bears witness to how Morrison's works and words can propel us forward while we sit with uncomfortable questions about race, gender, and identity. How do we make space for black vulnerability in the face of white supremacy and internalized self-loathing? How do historical novels speak to us now about the delicate seams that hold black minds and bodies together?
This slim and brilliant confessional offers a radical vision for book clubs as sites of self-discovery and communal healing. The Toni Morrison Book Club insists that we find ourselves in fiction and think of Morrison as a spiritual guide to our most difficult thoughts and ideas about American literature and life.
"What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, the writers--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and discover. The result is a collection of deeply personal conversations about everything from first love to Soul Train to police brutality, all told with an ever present lens on race in America. Not shying away from controversies, this book offers a radically new way to envision book clubs as a healing force in our lives. So pull up a chair and pour yourself a much needed glass of wine, as you get ready to experience the messy differences, surprising revelations, and restorative power of The Toni Morrison Book Club"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: the book club meets -- Cassandra's secret -- Not today, motherF#@$ -- Why black folks go crazy -- Juda's secret -- Dangerous music -- Funny white people -- Winnie's secret -- Black life and the dead deer -- On guns and apples -- Piper's secret -- Too many white guys -- Harriet Tubman's shawl -- Epilogue: a letter to Toni Morrison.