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Documentary: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am – as elegant as its subject 

Documentary: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am – as elegant as its subject  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s generous documentary is a fitting tribute to the late, great author...
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Essay Collection: 'The Origin of Others' by Toni Morrison – On the language of race and racism in literature and life

Essay Collection: 'The Origin of Others' by Toni Morrison – On the language of race and racism in literature and life | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The author of Beloved reads that novel alongside the real-life story that inspired it, in one of a resonant set of lectures on literature and the fetishisation of skin colour
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Essay: 10 Books with Wonderfully Nuanced Black Female Protagonists

Essay: 10 Books with Wonderfully Nuanced Black Female Protagonists | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
If stereotypes are getting you down, turn to these books featuring realistic, complex, feminist black women
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Appreciation: On Toni Morrison's 'Beloved,' 30 Years After Publication

Appreciation: On Toni Morrison's 'Beloved,' 30 Years After Publication | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Thirty years later, the book still has the capacity to cut to the heart of the pain and pride of the black experience in America.
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Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford;[1] February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, editor, teacher, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved.
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