Morrison Era

Author : Joseph B. Parker
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1455609013

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Morrison Era by Joseph B. Parker Pdf

This book traces the career of Lesseps S. Morrison, mayor of New Orleans from 1946 to 1961, and his political organization, the Crescent City Democratic Association (CCDA). The author, Joseph B. Parker, examines Morrison's time in office as an example of the reform politics movement that was sweeping the country at that time. Parker believes that few reform leaders were realistic in their approach to using political machines to accomplish their objectives. Morrison, Parker claims, belongs to a select group of realistic reformers that also includes Robert M. La Follette, Hiram Johnson, and Fiorello La Guardia. Morrison and New Orleans are not Parker's only concerns, however. Parker also focuses on reform politics and its influence on American cities everywhere. He examines the rise of political machines and their positive and negative effects on major cities across the country. Morrison Era traces not only the period of Morrison's mayoral term, but the entire reform politics movement in New Orleans. Parker gives an overview of the major machines and reformers in American cities before focusing on New Orleans, including a history of New Orleans and its politics from Reconstruction to 1926. He also provides a brief political history of New Orleans from 1926 to 1946, before turning to the structure of the CCDA. He traces the functions of the CCDA, examining it as a political machine that helped Morrison control most aspects of New Orleans government, and concludes with the gradual decline and fall of the CCDA.

Author : Parker
Publisher : Topeka Bindery
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 141781019X

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Morrison Era -Lib by Parker Pdf

Author : William Jefferson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781497550766

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Toni Morrison and the Limits of a Politics of Recognition by William Jefferson Pdf

Is Toni Morrison's writing as politically progressive as is widely assumed? In this eye-opening study, critic William Jefferson argues that it is not. Analyzing Morrison's major texts from the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, Jefferson argues that Morrison's writing has advanced problematic conceptions of racial essentialism, sexuality, and agency that would not be identified as in any way progressive if issued from the pen of a white writer. More than merely showing readers underappreciated aspects of African-American history, Morrison's fiction has actively intervened in the politics of her era--and in ways politically reactionary and disturbing. Stepping back from Morrison's fiction, Jefferson asks why scholars have not recognized these political aspects of Morrison's writing. What he finds is a purportedly left-wing academy focused predominantly on recognizing the indisputably black aspects of Morrison's work. This "politics of recognition," unfortunately, also naturalizes Morrison's representations in the same manner liberal humanist criticism naturalized the representations of the pre-1970 literary canon.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307264886

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Beloved by Toni Morrison Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

Author : Jaleel Akhtar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429954917

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Toni Morrison and the New Black by Jaleel Akhtar Pdf

Toni Morrison and the New Black examines how Morrison explores the concept of the new black in the context of post-soul, post-black and post-racial discourses. Morrison evolves the new black as symbolic of unprecedented black success in all walks of life, from politics to the media, business and beyond.The author's work shows how the new black reaffirms the possibility of upward mobility and success, and stands as testimony to the American Dream that anyone can achieve material success provided they work hard enough for it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0738673072

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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (MAXnotes) by Anonim Pdf

Author : William A. Jefferson
Publisher : Vivian Eastwood
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Toni Morrison's Black Liberal Humanism (and other excerpts) by William A. Jefferson Pdf

Jefferson questions whether Morrison is as politically progressive as has been widely assumed and probes why politically-minded literary critics have not noted the reactionary elements in her work. He sees scholars as following Morrison's own theory of her work--that is, that it must be analyzed according to African American "structures" and linguistic forms to uncover Afro-American "values." This approach, he argues, simply rehabilitates the tenets of pre-1970s liberal humanism: that Morrison's text is a transparent window into these apparently timeless and universal black values. Contains the introduction and first essay of the book Toni Morrison and the Limits of a Politics of Recognition. Also includes excerpts from the remainder of the book. FREE!

Author : Valerie Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118917695

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Toni Morrison by Valerie Smith Pdf

This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate’s aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels. Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly original contribution to the scholarship of one of the most important contemporary American writers Analyzes the celebrated fiction of Morrison in relation to her critical writing about the process of reading and writing literature, the relationship between readers and writers, and the cultural contributions of African-American literature Features extended analyses of Morrison’s lesser-known works, most recent novels, and books for children as well as the key texts

Author : David S. Goldstein,Shawnrece D. Campbell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476641096

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Toni Morrison's Secret Drive by David S. Goldstein,Shawnrece D. Campbell Pdf

The late Toni Morrison was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. A powerful writer, she wove stories depicting the largely overlooked Black experience in America and exploring the intersection of gender and race through the lives of Black women. Morrison's writing continues to move people and push readers to reassess their beliefs about what it means to be Black in America. Synthesizing some 250 scholarly works about Morrison's writing, this book examines eight novels as well as the short story "Recitatif." They are analyzed for techniques used to deepen meaning and emotional weight, and reveal Morrison's mastery over prose.

Author : Dr. Ravichand Mandalapu
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387537006

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CONFLICT OF CULTURES IN TONI MORRISON‰ÛªS FICTION by Dr. Ravichand Mandalapu Pdf

Author : Parker
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1565545508

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Morrison Era by Parker Pdf

Author : William L. Andrews,Nellie Y. McKay
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195107975

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Toni Morrison's Beloved by William L. Andrews,Nellie Y. McKay Pdf

With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. This casebook to Morrison's classic novel presents seven essays that represent the best in contemporary criticism of the book. In addition, the book includes a poem and an abolitionist's tract published after a slave named Margaret Garner killed her child to save her from slavery--the very incident Morrison fictionalizes in Beloved.

Author : David R. Mayhew
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400854523

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Placing Parties in American Politics by David R. Mayhew Pdf

This work on the structure of American parties combines the breadth that has been characteristic of voter analyses and the richness found in case studies of local party organizations. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jan Furman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611173673

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Toni Morrison's Fiction by Jan Furman Pdf

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 define human experience: the clash of gender and authority, the individual and community, race and national identity, culture and authenticity, and the self and other. As Furman demonstrates, Morrison more often than not renders meaning for characters and readers through an unflinching inquiry, if not resolution, of these enduring conflicts. She is not interested in tidy solutions. Enlightened self-love, knowledge, and struggle, even without the promise of salvation, are the moral measure of Morrison's characters, fiction, and literary imagination. Tracing Morrison's developing art and her career as a public intellectual, Furman examines the novels in order of publication. She also decodes their collective narrative chronology, which begins in the late seventeenth century and ends in the late twentieth century, as Morrison delineates three hundred years of African American experience. In Furman's view Morrison tells new and difficult stories of old, familiar histories such as the making of Colonial America and the racing of American society. In the final chapters Furman pays particular attention to form, noting Morrison's continuing practice of the kind of "deep" novelistic structure that transcends plot and imparts much of a novel's meaning. Furman demonstrates, through her helpful analyses, how engaging such innovations can be.

Author : M. Cornis-Pope
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781403970039

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Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After by M. Cornis-Pope Pdf

Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held cultures hostage to a confrontation between rival ideologies abroad and a clash between champions of uniformity and disruptive others at home. Considering a broad range of narrative projects and approaches (from polysystemic fiction to surfiction, postmodern feminism, and multicultural/postcolonial fiction), this book highlights their solutions to ontological division (real vs. imaginary, wordly and other-worldly), sociocultural oppositions (of race, class, gender) and narratological dualities (imitation vs. invention, realism vs. formalism). A thorough rereading of the best experimental work published in the US since the mid-1960s reveals the fact that innovative fiction has been from the beginning concerned with redefining the relationship between history and fiction, narrative and cultural articulation. Stepping back from traditional polarizations, innovative novelists have tried to envision an alternative history of irreducible particularities, excluded middles, and creative intercrossings.