The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations

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Label

The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations

Title remainder

selected essays, speeches, and meditations

Statement of responsibility

Toni Morrison

Creator

• Morrison, Toni

Author

• Morrison, Toni

Subject

• Meditations -- African American authors
• Meditations -- Women authors
• American essays
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- African American authors
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Women authors
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American
• Essays -- Women authors

Language

eng

Summary

"One of the most celebrated and revered writers in the history of American literature gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass, that are Toni Morrison's hallmarks. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11, the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King Ir., and the last by a heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. In the writings and speeches included here, Morrison takes on contested social issues: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, "black matter(s) and human rights. She looks at enduring aspects of culture: the role of the artist in society, the literary imagination, the Afro-American presence in American literature, and, in her Nobel lecture, the power of language itself. And here too is piercing commentary on her own work (including The Bluest Eye, Sala, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, and Paradise) and that of others, among them painter and collagist Romare Bearden, author Toni Cade Bambara, and theater director Peter Sellars. In all, The Source of Self-Regard is a luminous and essential addition to Toni Morrison's oeuvre."--Jacket

Cataloging source

PUL

Dewey number

814/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3563.O8749

LC item number

A6 2019

Literary form

mixed forms

Nature of contents

bibliography