Una potente novela sobre un crimen pasional y sus consecuencias ambientada en el Harlem de la década de 1920, con la firma inconfundible de Toni Morrison. Cuando Violet y Joe Trace, un matrimonio entrado en años, llegan a Nueva York huyendo de la intolerancia de su Virginia natal, creen que podran vivir en libertad sin importar el color de su piel. Pero el Harlem de los años '20, foco de un vibrante renacimiento cultural, les depara apuros inesperados....

In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992 continue Furman's explorations of Morrison's themes and narrative strategies. In all Furman surveys ten works that include the trilogy novels, a short story, and a book of criticism to identify Morrison's recurrent concern with the destructive tensions that...

“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense.”
–Wynton...

"What better way is there to preserve the human spirit of a people than through artistic expression? This book celebrates the stories of Black artists who paved the way for people of color in and out of the arts to be their true selves. Read about men and women who have broken barriers in literature and the performing and visual arts including writer Toni Morrison, jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, rapper Common, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, actor Lupia...

"The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Geneva Cobb Moore explores how Morrison captures and mirrors the tragedy experienced by and transformation of African Americans, using parody and pastiche, semiotics and metaphors, and allegory to portray black life in the United...

While black fiction in the '60s and '70s was dominated by political and social goals, recent black fiction uses black folk culture both as content and as the basis for aesthetic form. It values expression, craftsmanship, and imagination rather than a particular ideological configuration. Byerman perceives a shift of allegiance from the social agenda of the black arts movement to the more artistically motivated example of Ralph Ellison's Invisible...

Many people consider Morrison's novels difficult to read. Most of her readers have at least one book on their shelves that they couldn't finish or, when they did finish one, just scratched their heads in confusion. And when we think we are sure we know what she's writing about, it turns out we are half wrong or only getting the tip of the iceberg instead of the whole, beautiful, brooding thing. Toni Morrison For Beginners is about the woman, her...