Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in
literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty
plus years, Morrison's work has become synonymous with the most
significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time.
The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play
Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison's imagination.
Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing enables
audiences/readers, critics, and students to review Morrison's
cultural and literary impacts and to consider the import, and
influence of her legacies in her multiple roles as writer, editor,
publisher, reader, scholar, artist, and teacher over the last four
decades. Some of the highlights of the collection include
contributions from many of the major scholars of Morrison's canon:
as well as art pieces, music, photographs and commentary from
poets, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez; novelist, A.J. Verdelle;
playwright, Lydia Diamond; composer, Richard Danielpour;
photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; the first published
interview with Morrison's friends from Howard University, Florence
Ladd and Mary Wilburn; and commentary from President Barack Obama.
What distinguishes this book from the many other publications that
engage Morrison's work is that the collection is not exclusively a
work of critical interpretation or reference. This is the first
publication to contextualize and to consider the interdisciplinary,
artistic, and intellectual impacts of Toni Morrison using the
formal fluidity and dynamism that characterize her work. This book
adopts Morrison's metaphor as articulated in her Pulitzer-Prize
winning novel, Beloved. The narrative describes the clearing as "a
wide-open place cut deep in the woods nobody knew for what. . . .
In the heat of every Saturday afternoon, she sat in the clearing
while the people waited among the trees." Morrison's Clearing is a
complicated and dynamic space. Like the intricacies of Morrison's
intellectual and artistic voyages, the Clearing is both verdant and
deadly, a sanctuary and a prison. Morrison's vision invites
consideration of these complexities and confronts these most basic
human conundrums with courage, resolve and grace. This collection
attempts to reproduce the character and spirit of this metaphorical
terrain.
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