| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
13 audio discs (approximately 16 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
160000 |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
digital optical stereo rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
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Sound recording |
| Note |
Title from web page. |
| Performer |
Read by Bahni Turpin. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
The most celebrated and revered writer of recent times releases a new non-fiction collection: a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. |
| Contents |
I. THE FOREIGNER'S HOME. The dead of September 11 -- The foreigner's home -- Racism and fascism -- Home -- Wartalk -- The war on error -- A race in mind: the press in deed -- Moral inhabitants -- The prince of wealth, the cost of care -- The habit of art -- The individual artist -- Arts advocacy -- Sarah Lawrence commencement address -- The slavebody and the blackbody -- Harlem on my mind: contesting memory: meditation on museums, culture, and integration -- Women, race, and memory -- Literature and public life -- The Nobel lecture in literature -- Cinderella's stepsisters -- The future of time: literature and diminished expectations -- INTERLUDE: BLACK MATTERS. Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Race matters -- Black matter(s) -- Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature -- Academic whispers -- Gertrude Stein and the difference she makes -- Hard, true, and lasting -- PART II. GOD'S LANGUAGE. James Baldwin eulogy -- The site of memory -- God's language -- Grendel and his mother -- The writer before the page -- The trouble with paradise -- On "Beloved" -- Chinua Achebe -- Introduction of Peter Sellars -- Tribute to Romare Bearden -- Faulkner and women -- The source of self-regard -- Rememory -- Memory, creation, and fiction -- Memory, creation, and fiction -- Goodbye to all that: race, surrogacy, and farewell -- Invisible ink: reading the writing and writing the reading. |
| Subject |
Morrison, Toni.
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Morrison, Toni. (OCoLC)fst00062028
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American essays.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- African American authors.
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Essays -- Women authors.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Women authors.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Essays.
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Speeches.
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Meditations.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Turpin, Bahni, narrator.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections
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Toni Morrison selected essays, speeches, and meditations |
| ISBN |
9781984840455 |
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1984840452 |
| Standard No. |
9781984840455 |
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