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Hace 2 días · When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald’s mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support herself and her family. When the law finally catches up, the “ungovernable” adolescent is incarcerated in the New York Training School for Girls in upstate New York…. Corduroy Takes a Bow by Viola ...
Hace 2 días · He spoke with reverence for the literary greats, and when I asked about his inspirations, he once again brought up Toni Morrison. “Toni Morrison pervades every aspect of my life,” he said passionately. “I return to her works so, so much.” He has a quilt of Toni Morrison in his room, and her essay collection “Playing in the Dark ...
Hace 3 días · Entre ellos, la escritora Toni Morrison, ganadora del Pulitzer y del Nobel. Por entonces, Lenny no tenía especial conciencia racial ni reparaba en su particular condición de mestizo.
Hace 2 días · Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.”. What follows is a syllabus, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death, of some literary works with jazz at their center which have given “special overtones” to words. Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues.
Hace 3 días · Reappraising Land And Inheritance, Revisiting Ghosts: A Black Feminist And Decolonial Land-informed Reading Of Beloved by Toni Morrison And I, Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem by Maryse Condé Allison M. Guess, Sarah Soanirina Ohmer; Feminist Formations; Johns Hopkins University Press
Hace 3 días · Esta unidade didáctica ofrece unha panormámica da literatura de minorías étnicas nos Estados Unidos con especial atención ao caso afroestadounidense a través da figura da autora Toni Morrison e da análise de dous dos seus textos seminais: a obra de ficción Beloved (1987) e o ensaio de crítica literaria «Unspeakable Things Unspoken» (1988).
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