Included are interviews with the author, Angela Davis, Fran Lebowitz, Oprah Winfrey, Walter Mosely, Russel Banks, and Robert Gottlieb. The documentary looks at the author’s life, work and the social issues she has tackled throughout her literary career. There is a current documentary about her: “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past January, and Magnolia Pictures will bring the film to theaters later this year. She's been honored with a lifetime achievement award by the National Book Critics Circle, received a Pulitzer for fiction, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, American Book Award and the Nobel Prize in literature. She has all the awards: To say Toni Morrison is an award-winning author is an understatement, there really are too many to list here. Collectively, her works have appeared on the list a total of 148 weeks. “The Bluest Eye” and “Song of Solomon” both reached no. Her best-sellers by the numbers: Ten of her books have made the USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list, with “Paradise,” hitting the no. eNotes critical analyses help you gain a deeper understanding of The Source of Self-Regard so you can excel on your.
She told Terry Gross in an interview with NPR that while she was sad losing manuscripts and books, it was her children’s report cards and a jade plant she had nurtured for 15 years that she mourned most. Discussion of themes and motifs in Toni Morrison's The Source of Self-Regard. Not long after her return, her New York home burned down. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work ( The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others.Īn essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.1993 brought with it many highs and lows: In December of that year, Morrison attended the ceremony for the Nobel Prize ( the lecture is included in her book). She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR).
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