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    Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and...
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    Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional...
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  • personal background and lifestyle led to Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison to call him the first "black president". Clinton was also dogged by...
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  • The Bluest Eye (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
    published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American...
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  • current manifestations. Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Novel remains an important milestone for Afro-surrealists. Here, Morrison imagines a narrative of a...
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  • Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is a 2019 documentary film, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and produced by Johanna Giebelhaus, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders...
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  • 2002 Audrey Colombe described the movie's plot as an example of what "Toni Morrison calls a 'dehistoricizing allegory,'" with the Elijah Price character...
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  • Love (2003) is the eighth novel by Toni Morrison. Written in Morrison's non-linear style, the novel tells of the lives of several women and their relationships...
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    Princeton University, where she studied under Nobel Laureate in Literature Toni Morrison, who described Tuttle as "one of the best students I've ever had in...
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  • novel by the American author Toni Morrison, originally published in 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf. Set in the 1950s, Morrison's Home rewrites the narrative of...
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    Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the African-American novelist Toni Morrison (1931–2019) "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic...
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  • Song of Solomon (novel) (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
    Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her third to be published. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American...
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  • Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist...
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    Their Internet opera, entitled Four Electric Ghosts, was developed for Toni Morrison's Atelier at Princeton University in 2005 and the Kitchen in New York...
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  • Recitatif (category Short stories by Toni Morrison)
    "Recitatif" is Toni Morrison's first published short story. It was initially published in 1983 in Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women...
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  • starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton. Based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, the plot centers on a formerly enslaved...
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  • Paradise is a 1998 novel by Toni Morrison, and her first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Paradise completes a "trilogy" that begins...
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    scholar-in-residence at The New School. He has cited the writing of hooks and Toni Morrison, as well as operatic composer Diamanda Galás’s Plague Mass, as inspirations...
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  • white. Toni Morrison wrote and spoke influentially about rejecting the white gaze. In an analysis of whiteness in American literature, Morrison said, "What...
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  • Tar Baby (novel) (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
    Tar Baby is a 1981 novel by the American author Toni Morrison, her fourth to be published. This novel portrays a love affair between Jadine and Son, two...
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  • Honor, and an Otherwise Award Honor for their debut YA novel, PET. Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was a Black author who wrote her books specifically for...
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  • never evade or erase, but will always struggle against." The novelist Toni Morrison praised the book, in that Coates "filled an intellectual gap in succession...
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    was also a close friend of Nobel Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison. Upon his death, Morrison wrote a eulogy for Baldwin that appeared in The New York...
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    a White descendant of slave owners, describes this complex legacy. Toni Morrison wrote that this sexual usage of slaves was known as droit du seigneur...
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  • The Black Book is a collage-like book compiled by Toni Morrison and published by Random House in 1974, which explores the history and experience of African...
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  • God Help the Child (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
    God Help the Child is the 11th novel by American writer Toni Morrison. News of the book, as well as the title and opening line, were released in December...
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    include Daphne du Maurier, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Anne Rice, and Toni Morrison. Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat...
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    Dodson. Some of her fellow drama students at Howard included novelist Toni Morrison, actress Zaida Coles, stage director and playwright Shauneille Perry...
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  • Jazz (novel) (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
    historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s;...
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    Campus Residential Expansion now provides housing for 800 sophomores in Toni Morrison Hall and Ganędagǫ Hall. Options for living on North Campus for upperclassmen...
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