The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett et al.

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-355
Author(s):  
Sheila Liming
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2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Madigan

This essay focuses on the influence of commercial book clubs in the United States. It will examine the country's oldest commercial book club, the Book-of-the-Month Club (BOMC), Oprah's Book Club (OBC), which bears the name of its founder, television personality Oprah Winfrey, and their roles in the careers of two African-American authors, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ka-chi Cheuk

Despite its universal importance, the Nobel Prize in literature, which is based in Sweden and administered by the Swedish Academy, is a central European literary prize. And the prestige which the Nobel Prize bestows upon its winners is fuelled by a central-European type of fetishization of intellectual achievement, in which Nobel laureates are more known than they are read. Rather than being publicly recognized for their literary achievements, Nobel Prize-winning authors become literary celebrities who represent various kinds of Nobel-related capitals, including political capital, cultural capital and economic capital. In this article, I investigate on two non-European, Nobel Prize-winning authors, Gao Xingjian (the first Chinese-language Nobel author, 2000) and Toni Morrison (the first African American female Nobel author, 1993), and how they represent different conceptions of literary celebrities, and by extension different types of counterpublics. In order to study the relationship between Nobel literary laureates, storytelling and the representation of marginalized groups in the public domain, I examine and compare how Gao Xingjian’s and Toni Morrison’s Nobel lectures give voice to the Sinophone community and the African American community respectively. For Gao’s case, I study his Nobel lecture against the backdrop of the Chinese ‘Nobel complex’. In Morrison’s case, I examine her Nobel lecture as being re-presented in her appearances on Oprah’s Book Club, a reading initiative launched by the popular American television talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth M. Schwartz ◽  
Holly Tatum
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2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Wagner-Martin
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2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael César
Keyword(s):  

O espaço conceitual da “raça” (enquanto fenômeno social, e não biológico) é fundamental para entender os efeitos do colonialismo nas relações sociais estabelecidas ainda hoje. Não me refiro somente ao racismo explícito manifesto em injúrias ou violências. Trata-se, mais amplamente, de todo um campo semântico relacionado à noção de raça, em que podem estar envolvidas questões como religiosidade, moda, culinária, música, linguagem verbal, e, até mesmo, a afetividade e a sexualidade. No presente trabalho, pretendo investigar as relações entre raça e gênero nos romances Balada de amor ao vento, de Paulina Chiziane, e O olho mais azul, de Toni Morrison, escritoras que retratam tempos e espaços diferentes, mas nos quais uma série de experiências relacionadas às construções sociais de raça e gênero ligam as suas protagonistas, Sarnau e Pecola, respectivamente. Focando-me no exercício da sexualidade e da afetividade das personagens, proponho que a presença ou a herança das relações coloniais produz contextos que atingem as mulheres negras, atravessando espaços da África e da diáspora africana.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: raça, gênero, efeitos do colonialismo


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