The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations
Record details
- ISBN: 1984840452
- ISBN: 9781984840455
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Physical Description:
13 audio discs (approximately 16 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from web page. Compact discs. |
Formatted Contents Note: | I. THE FOREIGNER'S HOME. The dead of September 11 -- The foreigner's home -- Racism and fascism -- Home -- Wartalk -- The war on error -- A race in mind: the press in deed -- Moral inhabitants -- The prince of wealth, the cost of care -- The habit of art -- The individual artist -- Arts advocacy -- Sarah Lawrence commencement address -- The slavebody and the blackbody -- Harlem on my mind: contesting memory: meditation on museums, culture, and integration -- Women, race, and memory -- Literature and public life -- The Nobel lecture in literature -- Cinderella's stepsisters -- The future of time: literature and diminished expectations -- INTERLUDE: BLACK MATTERS. Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Race matters -- Black matter(s) -- Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature -- Academic whispers -- Gertrude Stein and the difference she makes -- Hard, true, and lasting -- PART II. GOD'S LANGUAGE. James Baldwin eulogy -- The site of memory -- God's language -- Grendel and his mother -- The writer before the page -- The trouble with paradise -- On "Beloved" -- Chinua Achebe -- Introduction of Peter Sellars -- Tribute to Romare Bearden -- Faulkner and women -- The source of self-regard -- Rememory -- Memory, creation, and fiction -- Memory, creation, and fiction -- Goodbye to all that: race, surrogacy, and farewell -- Invisible ink: reading the writing and writing the reading. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Bahni Turpin. |
Summary, etc.: | The most celebrated and revered writer of recent times releases a new non-fiction collection: a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. |
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Subject: | Morrison, Toni American essays Speeches, addresses, etc., American African American authors Essays Women authors Speeches, addresses, etc., American Women authors |
Genre: | Meditations. Speeches. Essays. Audiobooks. |
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Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | AUDIO 814 Mor (Text) | 33620139937771 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | 814.6 M (Text) | 34013143686072 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | CD SPOKEN MOR (Text) | 36123143014098 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | CD SPOKEN MOR (Text) | 36123144370069 | Closed Stacks Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | 814.6 MORRISON (Text) | 34010146211676 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |