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    Toni Morrison Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain‚ Ohio‚ on Feb. 18‚ 1931‚ where her parents had moved to escape the problems of southern racism; Morrison’s father‚ George Wofford‚ was a welder and told her folktales of the black community‚ transferring his African-American heritage to another generation (Williams). According to Scott Williams‚ a professor at State University of New York at Buffalo‚ in 1949‚ she entered Howard University in Washington‚ D.C.‚ America’s most distinguished

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    Toni Morrison In the mid twentieth century‚ the Civil Rights Movement influenced African-American writers to express their opinions. Most African-American writers of the time discussed racism in America and social injustice. Some authors sought to teach how the institution of slavery affected those who lived through it and African-Americans who were living at the time. One of these writers was the Toni Morrison‚ the novelist‚ who intended to teach people about all aspects of African-American life

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    Hannah Campos Professor Gibbons English 2 February 25‚ 2013 The Future of Language is in Our Hands Toni Morrison’s is a leading figure in American literature who won the Nobel Prize in 1993. She is good at giving different points of views or metaphors in order to show her purpose of writing and produce the tension of beauty. Black history plays a huge role in Morrison’s writing. In her lecture she tells a story happening between a blind woman and a few young men. The young men question

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    Toni Morrison The issue of abandonment and the will that it takes to survive the hardship of it is a reoccurring theme in Toni Morrison’s writing. Tar Baby‚ Sula and Paradise all deal with the issue of abandonment and how it relates to the characters in her stories. "Through her fiction‚ Toni Morrison intends to present problems‚ not their answers" (Moon). Her stated aim is to show "how to survive whole in a world where we are all of us‚ in some measure‚ victims of something." (Morrison) Morrison’s

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    Summary of “Cinderella’s Stepsisters” In his story “Cinderella’s StepsistersToni Morrison compares modern day women’s rights to those of the ancient fairy tale figure “Cinderella.” According to him women stick together to wrong another woman‚ like Cinderella’s sisters had done‚ her‚ while copying their mother’s actions. He wants to know what happens to the sisters‚ after the story ends‚ when they grow up. He wants to know how their attitudes will be in regard to other children and old people

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    The South In Toni Morrison

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    The South in Toni Morrison ’s Song of Solomon: Initiation‚ healing‚ and home Lee‚ Catherine Carr Song of Solomon‚ Toni Morrison ’s third novel in an increasingly varied and rich body of work‚ is a remarkable narrative. The novel ’s power lies not only in its recovery and representation of African American experience in the midtwentieth century but also in Morrison ’s insistence on the necessity of healing her broken‚ alienated protagonist‚ Milkman Dead. Central to both his maturation and his healing

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    Beloved, By Toni Morrison

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    How do we live with our inescapable pasts? Toni Morrison’s Beloved seeks to find out through the experiences of Sethe‚ a former slave living in 1870s Cincinnati. She is traumatized by her past of slavery and having killed her own baby. “But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more‚ it left her no room to imagine‚ let alone plan for‚ the next day” (Morrison 83). Sethe does not think she can be forgiven for these atrocities in her life. Beloved alternates

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    Title: Beloved Author: Toni Morrison Date Of Publication: September 1987 Genre: Mystery Biographical information about the author: She was originally born as Chloe Ardelia Wofford on the day of February 18‚ 1931 in Lorain‚Ohio. She is known as an American novelist‚ editor‚ and professor. She won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and in 1987 the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved. She entered Howard University in 1949 and a few yaers later she received her B.A. in English in 1953. Toni Morrison began writing fiction

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    A Mercy -Toni Morrison

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    slaves are treated more like animals than humans. Other times‚ they were treated with a little respect. Slaves in the northern colonies of America were treated differently depending on different religions and cultures. In the novel‚ a Mercy‚ Toni Morrison sympathizes towards the lives of slaves and slave owners in the 1600’s. A Mercy is based on a historical time period of the 1600’s in New York‚ Maryland‚ and Virginia. The 1600’s is the time period when slavery first became popular. In 1619

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    by Pramod K.Nayar).In the American canonical literature it was evident that the African-American presence expresses the nature of White American more than the Blacks.However‚this fact never gained the acceptance and the effect has been‚ as Morrison argues‚ “to enforce invisibility through

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