Vorbesteller
Neu
The Seer Toni Morrison Among the Ruins
19,99 €
inkl. gesetzl. MwSt.Artikel erhalten
Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
12.01.2027
Verlag
Penguin Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
240 (Printausgabe)
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780593491119
From an acclaimed scholar of Toni Morrison, an intimate and searching account of the life and the art of one of our greatest and most prophetic writers
Few critics have mapped the terrain of black American literature and culture with the range, rigor, and moral seriousness of Farah Jasmine Griffin. Now she brings her full intellectual force to bear-offering a gem of literary compression that captures the essence of an extraordinary life journey, the indelible work it produced, and the lessons it holds for us still.
Moving gracefully between biography, literary criticism, and memoir, Griffin traces Toni Morrison's journey from Lorain, Ohio, to Howard and Cornell Universities, from single mother and trailblazing editor at Random House to Nobel laureate and global moral voice. Along the way, Griffin reveals the fierce intelligence, discipline, humor, and uncompromising vision that shaped Morrison's art and life.
Threaded throughout is a powerful exploration of Morrison's enduring themes-ruins and renewal, memory and prophecy, patriarchy and love-and the ways they illuminate America's past and present. Griffin writes as both a preeminent scholar of Morrison's work and one of our most searching critics of black American literature and culture. The result is a major reassessment of Morrison's legacy, as well as a testament to mentorship, intellectual kinship, and shared vocation.
The Seer is a book about how a great writer is formed, how she shapes a nation's imagination, and how, even amid fracture, she shows us how to build again.
Few critics have mapped the terrain of black American literature and culture with the range, rigor, and moral seriousness of Farah Jasmine Griffin. Now she brings her full intellectual force to bear-offering a gem of literary compression that captures the essence of an extraordinary life journey, the indelible work it produced, and the lessons it holds for us still.
Moving gracefully between biography, literary criticism, and memoir, Griffin traces Toni Morrison's journey from Lorain, Ohio, to Howard and Cornell Universities, from single mother and trailblazing editor at Random House to Nobel laureate and global moral voice. Along the way, Griffin reveals the fierce intelligence, discipline, humor, and uncompromising vision that shaped Morrison's art and life.
Threaded throughout is a powerful exploration of Morrison's enduring themes-ruins and renewal, memory and prophecy, patriarchy and love-and the ways they illuminate America's past and present. Griffin writes as both a preeminent scholar of Morrison's work and one of our most searching critics of black American literature and culture. The result is a major reassessment of Morrison's legacy, as well as a testament to mentorship, intellectual kinship, and shared vocation.
The Seer is a book about how a great writer is formed, how she shapes a nation's imagination, and how, even amid fracture, she shows us how to build again.
Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
Verfassen Sie die erste Bewertung zu diesem Artikel
Helfen Sie anderen Kundinnen und Kunden durch Ihre Meinung.
Kurze Frage zu unserer Seite
Vielen Dank für Ihr Feedback
Wir nutzen Ihr Feedback, um unsere Produktseiten zu verbessern. Bitte haben Sie Verständnis, dass wir Ihnen keine Rückmeldung geben können. Falls Sie Kontakt mit uns aufnehmen möchten, können Sie sich aber gerne an unseren Kund*innenservice wenden.
zum Kundenservice