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...love, comradeship and betrayal. Concubine (cut by about 15 minutes for its U.S. release but still a rich and savory 2 1/2- hour banquet) hopscotches from the warlord era to the Japanese occupation to the Cultural Revolution and beyond. And under each regime, the artist is a pampered slave: flogged by his teachers, adored by his audience, toyed with by the elite, denounced by Mao's vindictive masses -- and always asked to do that showstopper, the fable about the king and his faithful concubine, just one more time...
Those who do not find Song of Solomon Morrison's best book almost invariably choose Beloved (1987), an intricate, layered, harrowing story about what an escaped slave did to save her child from bondage and the rippling effects of this act through many years and lives. In 1988, after Beloved had been passed over by judges for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle, a group of 48 black authors signed and sent a letter to the New York Times Book Review complaining that Morrison had never won an NBA or a Pulitzer Prize. The gesture...
...innate characteristics but to break through the limitations and prejudices of those lucky or wise enough to read it. Madame Bovary is not Everywoman; she is a living complex of new knowledge and experience in the lives of all who have met her. Sethe, the tormented former slave in Beloved, is not Everywoman either; she is Toni Morrison's gift to those who desperately need to know...
...successful pursuit of any policy, are missing abroad. Why? It may be that Clinton's foreign and defense policy team is second-rate, judging from its performance in Somalia. Or it may be that a President whose interest flags at the water's edge is simply a slave to public and congressional opinion when he lacks his own clear bearings. Still, it is possible to understand where consistency and constancy would lead if the Administration were functioning properly overseas. Consider some current cases...
...third reason I wear it, it's symbolic of my African heritage. When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists and our ankles in steel chains. I've turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher...