In memory of the great American writer Tony Morrison ...

 

Before I start writing ...

Tony Morrison, the great American writer who won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize on August 5, 2019, died Monday night at the age of 88, her publisher Knopf confirmed on Tuesday.

 

This article will discuss what kind of person she is and what she has accomplished.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Contents]

1. Career

 1-1.Editing Experience

 1-2 Nobel Prize

 

2. Politics and Culture

 2-1.Politics

 2-2.feminism

 2-3. National Memorial for Peace and Justice

 

3. Documentary Movies

 

4.phase

 

5. Inertia

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[1] .Career

'Tony Morrison as a young man'

1-1.Editing Experience

In 1949 she historically entered Black Howard University and was looking for fellow black intellectuals, who are in Washington, DC, where they first met racially separated restaurants and buses. She received a bachelor's degree in English in 1953 and a master's degree in art from Cornell University in 1955. The master's thesis was "The Treatment of Alienation by Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner." For two years, and while teaching at Howard for seven years, I met the Jamaican architect Harold Morrison, who married in 1958. When she divorced Harold in 1964, she conceived a second son.

Two years later, he moved to New York City's Random House, where he became senior editor for black women in the department of fiction. In that ability, Morrison played an important role in bringing black literature into the mainstream. One of the first books she worked on was groundbreaking contemporary African literature (1972), including works by Nigerian writers Wole soyinka and Chinua Achebe and South African playwright Athol Fugard. Among other books developed and edited by Morrison is The Black Book (1974), a collection of documents about photographs, illustrations, essays, and other black lives in the United States from slavery to the 1970s. Random House wasn't sure about this project, but it got a good rating. Alvin Beam The Cleveland Plain Dealer was evaluated as follows. "As a novelist, editors have a brain. Books that think and bring life to life without writing their name on the title page."

 

1-2 Nobel Prize

In 1987, Morrison published the most famous novel 'Beloved'.

 

Love has been a great success and a best seller for 25 weeks. Michiko Kakutani, a New York Times reviewer, said that the scene of a mother killing a baby `` is so cruel and confused that it seems that time is twisted by a line of fate that never changes. '' Canadian writer Margaret Atwood in a review for "The New York Times," Mr. Morrison's versatility and technical and emotional range seem to be without limits. If there is any suspicion about her prominent American novelist, her generation or any other generation, "loved ones will rest." But not all critics praised their loved ones. For example, African-American conservative social critic Stanley Crouch says in his novel "New Republic," it is like a melodrama in the structural concept of the novel series, and Morrison said permanently. It complains that it interferes with the story of "Maudlin Ideological Advertising".

 

Despite the overall high rating, Beloved did not receive the prestigious National Book Award or the National Book Critics Circle Award. Maya Angelou protested by 47 black critics and writers in a statement released by the New York Times on January 24, 1988. "In spite of the international, Tony Morrison's stature has not yet received national recognition that her five major novels are of total value." Two months later, Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel. She also won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Love is the first of three novels about love and African American history, sometimes referred to as the beloved trilogy. Morrison said that they were intended to read together. "Conceptual connection is to find the part of the loved one, the self that loves you and you and is always for you," he explained.

 

Two months later, Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel. She also won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Love is the first of three novels about love and African American history, sometimes referred to as the beloved trilogy. Morrison said that they were intended to read together. "Conceptual connection is to find the part of the loved one, the self that loves you and you and is always for you," he explained. Jazz, the second novel of the trilogy, came out in 1992. Published in a language that mimics the rhythm of jazz music, the novel is about the love triangle of the Harlem Renaissance in New York. That year she also published her first literary criticism, 'Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination (1992),' which investigated the presence of African Americans in white American literature. In 1993, Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature before the trilogy of the trilogy. Her quote is: "In a novel characterized by the power of art and a poetic income, Tony Morrison brings life to the essential aspects of American reality." She was the first black woman of nationality.

 

In her Nobel acceptance speech, Morrison talked about the power of storytelling. She talked to make the point. She talked to young people about the blind, old, black women. They say, "Do you have no context for our lives? Songs, literature, poems full of vitamins, poems full of vitamins, no experience to experience so you can start us strong? ... your specific world. " In 1996, the National Endowment for Humanities named Morrison as the US Government's highest honor, Jefferson Lecture, as Morrison's "excellent intellectual achievement in the field of anthropology." Morrison also received a medal that contributed to the American Letters of the National Book Foundation in 1996.

 

[2] .Politics and Culture

 

 2-1.Politics

The phrase "our first black president" was positively accepted by Bill Clinton supporters. When Congressman Black Cockers respects the former president at a dinner in Washington, DC on September 29, 2001, Chairman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) chairman said Clinton said, "We have elected a black president for some time. " Morrison told Time magazine in the context of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign. "People misunderstood him. He was ignoring the way President Clinton was executed. He was already black, guilty and already treated as a race on the streets. I have no idea what his instincts are in terms of race." . "I felt very patriotic when I went to Barack Obama's inauguration," she said.

 

Three unarmed blacks killed by white police officers were killed in April 2015 for the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Walter Scott, Morrison said. "People say, 'We should talk about race. This is a conversation. The police would like to shoot a white unarmed teenager behind their backs and I would like to see a white man who raped a black woman and when asked me' Are you done? ' . " After President Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016, Morrison wrote a "Mourning for White" essay published in New York State on November 21, 2016. It was argued that she was too afraid that white Americans would lose power to afford the race to maintain the idea of white supremacy alive, a candidate elected by the Trump's white supremacy group.

 

2-2.Feminism

Her novel generally focuses on black women, but Morrison did not identify her work as a feminine. In a 1998 interview, "Why are you away from feminism?" She replied: "To be as free as I can imagine, I can't take a closed position. Everything I've done so far in the world of writing does not extend articulation, but rather closes the book, opens the door, sometimes without closing the book. I left the ending open for interpretation, resumption and some ambiguity: "You might think I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist track. Do not join the patriarchy, do not think that it should be replaced by the maternal system. All kinds of things. "In 2012 she answered questions about the differences between black and white feminists in the 1970s. "The feminists used what black feminists used to call themselves," he explained.

 

"They weren't the same. Also, relationships with men. Historically, black women always protected men because they were there. They were the ones most likely to die." W. S. Kottiswari is a Morrison from Post-Modern Feminist Writer (2008) "I rewrote history written by mainstream historians to change the dichotomy of European-American" and "exemplify the characteristics of" postmodern feminism "by using narration in love and paradise. Kottiswari said, "Instead of the Western logo-centric abstraction, Morrison prefers the vivid language of women of strong colours.

 

2-3. National Memorial for Peace and Justice

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice contains articles written by Morrison. Visitors can see her quote after looking through the section commemorating Lin Ching's individual victims.

 

[3] .Documentary Films

Morrison was the subject of a film entitled Imagine Toni Morrison Remembers, directed by Pablo from 6th and screened on BBC1 TV on July 15, 2015. Here Morrison talked about Alan Yentob and her life and work. In 2016, Oberlin College was awarded a grant to complete the 2014 documentary film Alien House on Morrison's intellectual and artistic vision. The film was made by a director led by Jonathan Demme, directed by Geoff Pingree and Rian Brown, professors of Oberlin College Cinema Studies, and includes a film shot by Harold Ford Morrison, Morrison's first son. In 2019, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' documentary Tony Morrison: The Little Sculptures premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, which includes Morrison, Angela Davis, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sanchez, Walter Mosley.

 

[4]. Awards and nominations Awards

1975: Sula Ohio Book Award

1977: National Book Critics Circle Award for Solomon's Songs

1977: American Academy & Art Association Award

1987, 88: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

1988: Helmerich Award

1988: American Book Award for Loved Ones

1988: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Racial Relationships for Loved Ones 1988: Fiction Pulitzer Prize for Loved Ones  1988: Frederic G. Melcher Book Awards for Loved.

1988: Ohio or Career Medal Contributing to Education, Literature and Humanities

1989: Honorary Doctorate of Harvard University

1993: Nobel Prize for Literature

1993: Commander, Paris Arts and Letters

1994: Paris Condor Medal

1994: Rhegium Julii Prize

1996: Jefferson Lecture

1996: National Book Foundation's Contribution Medal for American Books

2000: National Humanities Medal

2002: 100 of the greatest African Americans, Molefi Kete Asante

2005: Ph.D. Honorary Doctorate, Oxford University

2008: New Jersey Hall of Fame Inductor

2009: Norman Mailer Award, Lifetime Achievement

2010: Officier de la L gion d 'Honneur

2011: Congress Library Creative Achievement Award for Fiction

2011: Dr. Honors Letter at Rutgers University Graduation

2011: Honorary Doctorate, University of Geneva

2012: Presidential Medal of Freedom

2013: Hosted by the Nichols-Chancellor's Medal / National Book Critics Circle awarded by Vanderbilt University

2014: Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

2016 PEN / Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction

2016: Harvard vs. Charlie Elliot Norton City (Norton lecture)

2016: Edward McDowell Medal awarded by McDowell Colony

2018: Thomas Jefferson Medal awarded by the American Philosophy Association

 

[5] .A book of interest

-Novels

• The Bluest Eye. 1970. 

• Sula. 1973. 

• Song of Solomon. 1977. 

• Tar Baby. 1981.

• Beloved. 1987.

• Jazz. 1992. 

• Paradise. 1997.

• Love. 2003.

• A Mercy. 2008. 

• Home. 2012.

• God Help the Child. 2015. 

-Children's literature (with Slade Morrison)

• The Big Box (1999). 

• The Book of Mean People (2002). 

• Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?, The Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or the Snake? (2007). 

• Peeny Butter Fudge (2009). 

• Please, Louise (2014).

-Short fiction

• "Recitatif" (1983)

• "Sweetness" (2015)

-Plays

• Dreaming Emmett (performed 1986)

• Desdemona (first performed May 15, 2011, i Vienna)

-Libretto

• Margaret Garner (first performed May 2005)

-Non-fiction

• Morrison, Toni (2009). "Foreword". In Harris, Middleton A.; Levitt, Morris; Furman, Roger; Smith, Ernest (eds.). The Black Book. Random House.

• Editor (July 24, 2007). Playing in the Dark. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

• Editor and foreword (1992). Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. Pantheon Books. 

• Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case (co-editor) (1997). 

• Remember: The Journey to School Integration (April 2004). 

• What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction, edited by Carolyn C. Denard (April 2008). 

• Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word, editor (2009). 

• The Origin of Others (2017). arvard University Press.

• The Source of Self-Regard: Essays, Speeches, Meditations (2019). Random House.