Toni Morrison

I Forestillingen om de andre retter nobelprisvinder Toni Morrison sit undersøgende blik mod de emner, som har været omdrejningspunkter for hendes forfatterskab og genstand for de seneste års politiske debat: racisme, grænser, frygt og behovet for at høre til. Med udgangspunkt i erindringer, litteratur og historie gennemlyser Morrison opførelsen af ekskluderende mure, og hvordan de andre gøres anderledes. Forestillingen om de andre samler seks essays i et forsøg på at forstå, hvordan og hvorfor vi er endt med at forbinde disse mure med hudfarve. Med forord af National Book Award-vinderen Ta-Nehisi Coates. Toni Morrison (1931-2019) var romanforfatter, essayist og en af det 20. århundredes væsentligste stemmer. Hun har modtaget Nobelprisen, Pulitzerprisen, og i 2012 gav Barack Obama hende præsidentens frihedsmedalje, den fornemste civile hædersbevisning i USA. I serien Antiracistiske klassikere er bøgerne Et spørgsmål om race af Cornel West, Fordømte her på jorden af Frantz Fanon og Kvinder, race og klasse af Angela Y. Davis udkommet. Anmeldelser"Nobelprismodtager Toni Morrison undersøger i Forestillingen om de andre, hvordan ideen om race og konstruktionen af andethed er opstået i USA. Det er en god bog i en god serie" – Michael Bach Henriksen i Information"En velfortalt og klog lille bog. Udkommer til tiden og i Informations Forlags fortjenstfulde serie af antiracistiske klassikere" – Weekendavisen"Uhyre vigtig læsning. Du glemmer den ikke igen!" – Bogvægten

A new edition for a new world of one of literary legend Toni Morrison’s first picture books with her son, Slade Morrison. With an afterword by the inimitable Jewell Parker Rhodes." This is a book about mean people. Some mean people are big. Some little people are mean." In Toni Morrison's second illustrated book collaboration with her son Slade, she offers a humorous and insightful look at how children experience meanness and anger in our world. The Morrisons recognized that the world and its language can be confusing to young people. To a child, meanness can have many shapes, sizes, and sounds. The wise young narrator shows that meanness can be a whisper or a shout, a smile or a frown as the list of mean people grows to include parents, siblings, and bullies of several varieties. Today’s young readers certainly know about meanness and will feel satisfied by having their perspective championed in The Book of Mean People as well as heartened by the book’s message of embracing optimism, kindness, and joy despite any meanness they encounter. And adult readers will no doubt recognize some of these situations from their own life. With whimsical yet sophisticated art by bestselling illustrator Pascal Lemaitre, The Book of Mean People is as relevant today as it was when it was originally published 20 years ago. Features a new cover and back matter that includes an afterword by bestselling and critically acclaimed author Jewell Parker Rhodes.

Nobelprisvinner Toni Morrison skrev en eneste novelle i løpet av sitt forfatterskap. Fire tiår senere utgis «Resitativ» for første gang i norsk oversettelse, sammen med et nyskrevet essay av Zadie Smith. Åtteåringene Twyla og Roberta møtes på barnehjem. Twylas mor danser hele natten, Robertas mor er alltid syk, så jentene plasseres sammen på rom 466. «Stuck med en jente av motsatt rase», tenker den ene. De to blir uatskillelige, men mister kontakten. Som voksne møtes de kun noen få ganger, på en diner der den ene serverer den andre, senere som to unge mødre i en protestmarsj. Som lesere får vi vite at en av de to er svart, den andre hvit, men novellen identifiserer aldri hvem er hvem. Og hvert som leseren tror hun ser en løsning, ombestemmer seg en gang og ombestemmer seg igjen, lar Morrison oss gradvis ane hva hver enkelt av oss tar med seg av tolkninger, fordommer og blindflekker inn i teksten. Selv omtalte Morrisons Resitativ som et litterært eksperiment, der leseren er forsøksobjektet. Og som Zadie Smith hevder i sitt essay om novellen, er den like radikal, relevant og litterært mesterlig i dag, som da den ble skrevet for nesten 40 år siden.

This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen, Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices may be new to readers, including many working-class Black and white women. Topics covered range from sexuality and family relationships, to race, class, and patriarchy, to party politics. Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is “peopled with questioning, caring, socially committed women writers.”

A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison. In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Another work of genius by this masterful writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif, a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing times.

This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen, Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices may be new to readers, including many working-class Black and white women. Topics covered range from sexuality and family relationships, to race, class, and patriarchy, to party politics. Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is “peopled with questioning, caring, socially committed women writers.”

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMESSoon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight, Macon 'Milkman' Dead III is born. Brought up by his well-off black family to revere the white world around him, Milkman strives to make sense of his conflicting identities. Always seeking flight in some way, he leaves his Michigan home for the South, retracing the steps of his forebears in search of his own buried heritage and is introduced to an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins; the inhabitants of a fully realised black world. Evocative and kaleidoscopic, Song of Solomon is a brilliantly imagined coming-of-age tale.

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIEPecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the marigolds in her garden will not bloom, and her wish will not come true. Pecola's life is about to change in other painful and devastating ways. A powerful interrogation of what it means to conform to an idea of beauty, The Bluest Eye asks vital questions about race, class and gender and remains one of Toni Morrison’s most unforgettable works.

'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine EvaristoTwyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store and then at a protest. The two women are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem but, despite their conflict, the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them is undeniable. Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. We know that one is white and one is black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? This story is a masterful exploration of what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, of race and the relationships that shape our lives. Now with a new introduction by Zadie Smith, it is as radically compelling and relevant today as it was when first written nearly forty years ago.'Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known' Tayari Jones'Her work is an act of giving her community back to itself, so that people - African-Americans but the diaspora as well - can see and witness themselves' Diana Evans

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner--for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith "A puzzle of a story, then--a game.... When Morrison] called Recitatif an 'experiment' she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader." --Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif, a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial. We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing times.

’An American masterpiece’ AS Byatt WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNER BERNARDINE EVARISTO Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ’Beloved’. A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece and best-known work. Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. ’The literary titian we must never stop learning from’ MetroWinner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

Una potente novela sobre un crimen pasional y sus consecuencias ambientada en el Harlem de la d cada de 1920, con la firma inconfundible de Toni Morrison Cuando Violet y Joe Trace, un matrimonio entrado en a os, llegan a Nueva York huyendo de la intolerancia de su Virginia natal, creen que podr n vivir en libertad sin importar el color de su piel. Pero el Harlem de los a os '20, foco de un vibrante renacimiento cultural, les depara apuros inesperados. Joe acabar cometiendo un horrendo crimen pasional, mientras que Violet se ver obligada a convivir con sus celos y las repercusiones del acto de su marido. Retrato de una comunidad en plena ebullici n, Jazz es una potente novela sobre conflictos raciales, ilusiones perdidas y las injusticias padecidas por las mujeres en el siglo XX. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." --People In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life. "The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women." --The New York Times Book Review

En av USA:s absolut främsta romanförfattare tar upp frågeställningar som ständigt varit aktuella för henne och som nu kommit att dominerar världspolitiken: ras, rädsla, gränser, massmigration och önskan att höra till. Varför skapar vi avstånd till varandra och låter oss luras av ett ”vi och dom”-tänkande? Dessa teman har Toni Morrison föreläst om på Harvarduniversitetet och de fördjupas i boken. Hon reflekterar bland annat över begreppet identitet och belyser egna erfarenheter, såväl som historia, politik och litteratur. Hon tar till exempel upp 1900-talets litterära tendens att romantisera slaveriet och utforskar verk av Hemingway, Faulkner och Harriet Beecher Stow.

OHIO, 1873. Sammen med datteren Denver bor den tidligere slaven Sethe i et hus hjemsøkt av Sethes døde datter, og av minnene om det som hendte 18 år tidligere. Såret og høygravid flykter Sethe fra farmen Sweet Home, for å slutte seg til resten av familien. I 28 dager får hun nyte friheten, før hun blir oppsporet av slavejegere. Sethe forsøker å bearbeide fortidens smerte, og da den tidligere medslaven Paul D. dukker opp, gjør det alt litt lettere. Men en dag kommer den døde datteren tilbake for å kreve det som ble tatt fra henne, og for endelig en gang å bli elsket.

Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American history and the current state of politics. The duty of the press and the role of the artist. Throughout Mouth Full of Blood our search for truth, moral integrity and expertise is met by Toni Morrison with controlled anger, elegance and literary excellence. The collection is structured in three parts and these are heart-stoppingly introduced by a prayer for the dead of 9/11, a meditation on Martin Luther King and a eulogy for James Baldwin. Morrison's Nobel lecture, on the power of language, is accompanied by lectures to Amnesty International and the Newspaper Association of America. She speaks to graduating students and visitors to both the Louvre and America's Black Holocaust Museum. She revisitsThe Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved; reassessing the novels that have become touchstones for generations of readers. Mouth Full of Blood is a powerful, erudite and essential gathering of ideas that speaks to us all. It celebrates Morrison's extraordinary contribution to the literary World.