Word: toni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carre -Kingkill, Thomas Gavin The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison...
...Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré∙Kingkill, Thomas Gavin The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth ∙Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison...
SOMETIME EARLY IN THE 1900s, the white politicians of the midwestern town that is the setting for Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon got worried. The city's blacks had named the street on which the only black doctor in town lived "Doctor Street," and the name seemed likely to stick. In an effort to fight the renegades, the town fathers put up notices in the black neighborhood: the street was "Mains Avenue," not Doctor Street. The Soutside residents responded in kind, calling the street "Not Doctor Street," just as they called Mercy Hospital "No Mercy" because it refused...
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison...
...progress of black American writing, Novelist Toni Morrison once said, is marked by five stages. First comes the heat of protest, and then the more reflective search for personal identity. This is followed by an exploration of culture, a refinement of craft and finally a wider vision of the world. But the important thing, says Morrison, is not to explain but "to bear witness, to record." The author, who is also an editor at Random House, did this in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973), novels that dealt with blacks in the Middle West, where the author was born...