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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity in The Origin Of Others.
In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially literature. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Camara Laye are among the authors she examines. Readers of Morrison's fiction will welcome her discussions of some of her most celebrated books: Beloved, Paradise, and A Mercy. Morrison also writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin colour to reveal character or drive narrative.
Expanding the scope of her concern, she also addresses globalization and the mass movement of peoples in this century. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Morrison's most personal work of nonfiction to date.
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Black Panther Omnibus (Paperback)
Ta-Nehisi Coates; Illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze, Chris Sprouse
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THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK 'One of the
best books I have ever read in my entire life. I haven't felt this
way since I first read Beloved . . .' Oprah Winfrey Lose yourself
in the stunning debut novel everyone is talking about - the
unmissable historical story of injustice and redemption that
resonates powerfully today Hiram Walker is a man with a secret, and
a war to win. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom.
Born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted
with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a
man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful
decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family
and into the heart of the underground war on slavery... 'A
transcendent work from a crucial political and literary artist'
Diana Evans 'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual
void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is
Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison
A gift to the next generation of engaged citizens, from one of our
most celebrated intellectuals.
As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract
that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of
security, stability, and fairness-is no longer guaranteed; in fact,
it's no longer part of the common discourse. Tony Judt, one of our
leading historians and thinkers, offers the language we need to
address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of
the far Right and the debunked socialism of the past. In
reintroducing alternatives to the status quo, Judt invigorates our
political conversation, furnishing the tools necessary to imagine a
new form of governance and a better way of life.
*An extraordinary coming-of-age story, adapted from the adult
memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water
Dancer and Between the World and Me* 'Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young
James Joyce of the hip-hop generation' Walter Mosley This was the
abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to
re-emerge on corners and prison tiers Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up in
the tumultuous 1980's in Baltimore known, back then as the murder
capital of the United States. With seven siblings, four mothers,
and one highly unconventional father: Paul Coates, a
larger-than-life Vietnam Vet, Black Panther, Ta-Nehisi's coming of
age story is gripping and lays bare the troubled, often violent
life of the inner-city, and the author's experience as a young
black person in it With candor, Ta-Nehisi Coates details the
challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the
eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the
important role family plays in such circumstances.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'I've been wondering who might fill
the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is
Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison 'Searing. One of the foremost
essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of
the most important writing about what it is to be black in America
today' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant An essential
account of modern America, from Obama to Trump, from black lives
matter to white supremacists rising - by the bestselling author of
Between the World and Me Obama's presidency was a watershed moment
in American history. From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world
was a black man. In those eight years, Obama transformed the
conversation around race, gender, class and wealth - inspiring hope
but also attracting criticism and breeding discontent. In this
unflinching book, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of Obama's eight
years in power, through such iconic, unmissable essays as 'Fear of
a Black President' and 'The Case for Reparations'. His account
traverses the intersections of the political, the ideological and
the cultural, presenting an America in radical flux and yet still
in the grip of racial injustice, class warfare and institutional
conspiracy. And it reflects on the author's own journey through
these eight years, charting the public through the private in
passages of startling intimate and piercingly relevant memoir.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of our most brilliant, most fearless and
most essential living writers - and his work is crucial to
understanding race in America today. Finalist for the Los Angeles
Book Prize 2018 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for
Excellence 2018 RAVE READER REVIEWS: 'Brilliantly written,
incisive, and extremely relevant. Read it with your families, use
it in your classrooms, give copies to your friends' (Liz) 'Coates
thinks more deeply and writes more clearly about the national
tragedy and disgrace that is our collective failure to confront the
legacy of White Supremacy than just about anyone... I can't
recommend it highly enough' (Worddancer Redux) 'Every white person
who wants to really know how it looks from 'the other side' should
take on the responsibility of reading Coates' eye-opening,
informative book... A must read for everyone of every colour' (Indy
JV) 'A masterful understanding of how the USA really works'
(shedgirl) 'If you want to know the wellsprings of racism in
America - then read this book!' (David C. R. Hancock)
The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most
important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New
York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed
by Toni Morrison as "required reading." This small and perfectly
formed epic follows the lives of boys on the journey to manhood in
black America and beyond in 1980s Baltimore, a city on the verge of
chaos. These youngsters needed to learn fast, and Ta-Nehisi's
father, Paul, was a fine teacher: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the
Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian, and an autodidact who
launched a publishing company in his basement. The Beautiful
Struggle is a moving father-and-son story about the reality that
tests us, and the love that saves us.
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