| the ledge files the ledge - nl - uk |
new search |
conversations books |
Paradise Toni Morrison publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1998
|
summary: The anatomy of an internecine war - cultural, religious and racial - waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma. |
| bookweb | ||
| ON TONI MORRISON'S BOOKSHELF Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf, 1925 The Waves Virginia Woolf, 1931 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner, 1936 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison, 1952 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston, 1937 Margaret Garner www.margaretgarner.org, Go Down Moses, and Other Stories William Faulkner, 1942 | BOOKS BY TONI MORRISON: Beloved 1987 Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed to save her from slavery. | WHAT TO READ AFTER BELOVED? AFRICAN-AMERICAN CLASSICS Native Son Richard Wright, 1940 Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin, 1953 The Color Purple Alice Walker, 1982 GHOSTS FROM THE PAST One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez, 1967 Old People and the Things that Pass Louis Couperus, 1906 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë, 1847 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 Sophie's Choice William Styron, 1979 [Lijken op liefde] Astrid Roemer, 1997 SLAVERY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The Known World Edward P. Jones, 2003 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852 [Hoe duur was de suiker?] Cynthia McLeod, 1987 Roots Alex Haley, 1976 |
| The Bluest Eye 1970 | ||
| Sula 1973 | ||
| Song of Solomon 1977 This is the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spiritually. Through the enlightenment of one man, the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation. | ||
| Tar Baby 1981 | ||
| Jazz 1992 Joe Trace, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband, shoots to death his lover of three months, 18 year old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. Captures the complex humanity of black urban life. | ||
| Paradise 1998 The anatomy of an internecine war - cultural, religious and racial - waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma. | ||
| : |
||
| The Ledge editor-in-chief: Stacey Knecht, info@the-ledge.com Thanks to: De digitale pioniers and Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Design: Maurits de Bruijn |
Copyright: Pieter Steinz, Stacey Knecht All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. |
|