The Origin of Others / / Toni Morrison.
What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Toni Morr...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates -- 1. Romancing Slavery -- 2. Being or Becoming the Stranger -- 3. The Color Fetish -- 4. Configurations of Blackness -- 5. Narrating the Other -- 6. The Foreigner’s Home -- Acknowledgments |
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| Summary: | What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Toni Morrison’s most personal work of nonfiction to date. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780674982628 9783110543315 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/9780674982628 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Toni Morrison. |