105 results for "Beloved toni morrison" between $5.00 and $150.00

Pages: 168, Edition: 0, Paperback, Columbia University Press

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Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brings the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of today and into the reader's comprehension.

About this Book.

Born in Ohio in 1931, Toni Morrison is the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize, she is the author of The Bluest Eye, Sula, The Song of Solomon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Paradise.

Literary Criticism General American African American

Paperback. New York, Knopf, Uncorr. proof wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With P.R. release stapled to front wraps. Pulitzer Prize winner. Publisher revised printing run taped to front. Record # 302197

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved...

First edition of the Collected Novels. Six volumes. Spine lettering a little rubbed else fine in about fine cardboard slipcase with one corner bumped. Issued without dustwrappers. Issued by the publisher to celebrate the author's Nobel Prize for Literature.

Fiction Historical Literary African American General

A 4 page paper which examines the structure of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” as it keeps presenting the reader with the reoccurring theme of slavery. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.

ISBN13: 9780195107975. ISBN10: 0195107977. by Toni Morrison. Published by Oxford University Press. Edition: 99

This 5 page report discusses Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel, “Beloved,” and the 1998 screen adaptation of the novel starring Oprah Winfrey. The writer expresses a strong preference for the novel and asserts that the film was not a good adaptation of it. One of Toni Morrison’s great talents as a writer is the way she develops her characters throughout the process of the story she is telling. Each presents himself or herself as an individual in their own right who is about to be irrevocably changed...

This program introduces one of the greatest contemporary American authors: winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, "a literary Moses stripping away the idols of whiteness and blackness that have prevented blacks from knowing themselves." Readings from Beloved and Jazz show how she returns to the pain of slavery and segregation to restore wholeness to the black psyche. "The past," Morrison says, "is more infinite than the future... It’s avoiding it, deceiving ourselves about it, that paralyzes...

Signed by Author. Dust jacket with light wear and a small 'signed' sticker. Light-wear, light soil marks. Author's signature on the front free end paper. Dust jacket excerpt, It is the story-set in post-Civil War Ohio-of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of iron eyes and backbone to match.

Description Table of Contents Author Bios Acclaimed as the greatest American novel of the last quarter century, 'Beloved' confronts the legacy of slavery and its aftermath. The full-length essays in this volume provide a comprehensive critical overview of this modern classic. Editor's Note Introduction Putting "His Story Next to Hers": Choice, Agency, and the Structure of Beloved To Love and Be Loved: Considering Black Masculinity and the Misandric Impulse in Toni...

Morrison, Toni. BELOVED. A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus 1987. First U.K. Edition. Signed by Morrison on the front flyleaf. First English edition. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This book was also selected as the best novel of the last quarter-century by the New York Times. Morrison was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. This edition is uncommon signed. 8vo gilt-stamped green boards. Very fine in like dj. [Book #25151] See all items in African American See...

Description Table of Contents Author Bios With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide places Beloved in the contexts of Morrison's oeuvre and other works of African American literature. Chapters focus on the supernatural elements of the work, as well as the author's treatment of the physical self.With...