Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations

by ToniMorrison (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2019

  $5.89

  A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our timeSpanning four decades, these essays, speeches, and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American history and the current state of politics. The duty of the press and the role of the artist. Throughout Untitled Essays our search for truth, moral integrity and expertise is met by Toni Morrison with controlled anger, elegance and literary excellenceThe collection is structured in three parts and these are heart-stoppingly introduced by a prayer for the dead of 9/11, a meditation on Martin Luther King and a eulogy for James Baldwin. Morrison?s Nobel lecture, on the power of language, is accompanied by lectures to Amnesty International and the Newspaper Association of America. She speaks to graduating students and visitors to both the Louvre and America?s Black Holocaust Museum. She revisits The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved; reassessing the novels that have become touchstones for generations of readers.Untitled Essays is a powerful, erudite and essential gathering of ideas that speaks to us all.