Word: toni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison...
Perhaps. It seems to me that his defense of canonization makes the debate simply an academic one among scholars who will use their own subjective criteria to determine what is "better." Bloom and his cronies will always decide Shakespeare and Austen are "better" than Kerouac and Toni Morrison...
...AUTHOR: TONI MORRISON...
THIS NOVEL, TONI MORRISON'S sixth, takes only its first five sentences to disclose the central plot. Within a few more pages, most of the details have been provided. The setting is Harlem, the year 1926. Joe Trace, 50, shoots and kills Dorcas Manfred, the teenage girl with whom he has been having a clandestine affair. When Joe's wife Violet, also 50, hears what has happened, she goes to Dorcas' funeral and takes a butcher knife to the dead girl's face...
...Beloved, Toni Morrison's best-known work, depicts the direct effect of slavery on the lives of a mother and her children who escape the antebellum South. Jazz is about the children of those children, and while they have not lived under slavery, they have lived with its legacy...