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...publicity tour forParadise, Morrison was introduced by Professors of Afro-American Studies Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Cornel R. West '74, who set the tone for an event imbued with homage to Morrison and to literature in general...
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison read the first chapter of her new novel,Paradise,to a packed audience which included about 50 Harvard students yesterday in downtown Boston's Faneuil Hall...
...take issue with Gray's statement that Morrison is "the author who almost single-handedly gave African-American women their rightful place in American literature." That view heedlessly erases the numerous African-American women writers--Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, Octavia Butler and Carolivia Herron among them--who, as Morrison's sisters, have brilliantly contributed to contemporary African-American letters. THOMAS GRAVE Providence...
...Morrison's power and influence as a writer lie in her ability to appeal to critics and ordinary readers alike. Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, authors of top 1997 books, are inaccessible to most of the world. Literature is inexorably about life, and so the best literature should speak, on different levels, to everyone as Morrison's writing does, over and over. Toni Morrison sends us in search of the meanings of love, belonging, ostracism, violence and beauty through stories of black people and, now, raceless people. Thanks for recognizing her as the "Great American Storyteller." SARAH MILLER New Haven...
Gray delved into the actual process of writing in a way that few writers do. His assertion that William Faulkner's "prose rhythms" crop up in Morrison's writing, however, left me wondering. Morrison won the Nobel. Do we still have to think she needs a role model? JACINDA TOWNSEND New York City...