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Toni Morrison
Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. In 1955, she earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. In the late 1960s, she became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City. In the 1970s and 1980s, she developed her own reputation as an author, and her perhaps most celebrated work, Beloved, was made into a 1998 film. Her works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States.
In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. The very same year, she was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. In 2020, Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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L'Altra America nella narrativa di Toni Morrison
by Maurizio Zerbo
Tema centrale nella narrativa di Toni Morrison, premio Nobel per la letteratura (1993), è la descrizione delle strutture emotive profonde e del comune sentire dell'America nera, di cui viene mirabilmente ricostruita la memoria collettiva. Il finespiega la scrittrice nel suo Giochi al buioè l'affermazione del punto di vista afroamericano, che la storiografia ha sempre relegato ai margini della cultura ufficiale: Contemplare la presenza dei neri è fondamentale per la comprensione della nostra letteratura nazionale e non si ...
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