What moves at the margin : selected nonfiction / Toni Morrison ; edited and with an introduction by Carolyn C. Denard.

Author/creator Morrison, Toni
Other author Denard, Carolyn C.
Format Book
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008.
Descriptionxxvi, 215 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Contents Family and history -- A slow walk of trees (as grandmother would say), hopeless (as grandfather would say) -- She and me -- What the black woman thinks about women's lib -- A knowing so deep -- Behind the making of The black book -- Rediscovering black history -- Rootedness: the ancestor as foundation -- The site of memory -- Writers and writing -- On behalf of Henry Dumas -- Preface to Deep sightings and rescue missions by Toni Cade Bambara -- James Baldwin: his voice remembered; life in his language -- Speaking of Reynolds price -- To be a black woman: review of Portraits in fact and fiction -- The family came first: review of Labor of love, labor of sorrow -- Toni Morrison on a book she loves: Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Going home with bitterness and joy: review of South to a very old place by Albert Murray -- On The radiance of the king by Camara Laye -- Foreword to The Harlem book of the dead -- Foreword to Writing red: an anthology of American women writers, 1930-1940 -- The fisherwoman: Introduction to A kind of rapture: photographs -- Politics and society -- On the backs of blacks -- The talk of the town -- The dead of September 11 -- For a heroic writers movement -- Remarks given at the Howard University Charter Day convocation -- The future of time: literature and diminished expectations -- The dancing mind -- How can values be taught in the university -- the nobel lecture in literature.
Local noteLittle-472704--305131068233Z
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2007041719
ISBN9781604730173 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN160473017X (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS 3563.O8749 A6 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold