The origin of others the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 2016 /

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 Othe...

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Main Author: Morrison, Toni (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Series:Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2016.
Physical Description:
xvii, 114 pages ; 19 cm.
Subjects:
Morrison, Toni.
African Americans in literature -- Fiction.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- Technique.
Contents:
  • Foreword / by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Romancing slavery
  • Being or becoming the stranger
  • The color fetish
  • Configurations of blackness
  • Narrating the other
  • The foreigner's home.

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