Word: morrison
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...Morrison's final lecture dealt with themes of "Blackness" in Ernest Hemingway's novels To Have and Have Not and The Garden of Eden...
Afro-American scholars should study how American literature deals with the Black experience, Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison said Wednesday...
...Morrison's talk was the last of three lectures about her research on Africanism, the metaphorical presence of race in American culture...
Africanism is not only represented through Black characters, but also by the "crafty" use of language that directs ideas against the "surface meaning" of the text, Morrison said...
...interest in the work is not how white writers treat Black characters," Morrison said, explaining that she is studying how the depiction of Black characters creates a "mirror of society...