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ActivistFeministTONI MORRISON

The advocacy of women’s rights in

comparison to men

Political

Social

Economic ($$$) Equality

FEMINISM

1931, Ohio

Parents & Grandmother = storytellers

Motivated Morrison

1st grade = only child who could read

Class was mostly all Caucasian

FACTS

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Howard University B.A. 1953

Cornell University Master’s Degree 1955

Returns to Howard Teacher Writer Met husband while teaching

EDUCATION

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Nobel Prize in literature 1993

Pulitzer Prize 1988, Beloved

Presidential Medal of Freedom 2012

Highest civilian award in the US

Awarded by the president

1ST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN

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Short StoryRECITATIF

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ONLY short story published

1983

Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women

Musical Declamation Italian: Recitativo

Singer is allowed to adopt rhythms of ordinary speech

Tone/Rhythm specific to any language

FACTS

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Unique b/c switches b/t NARRATIVE & DIALOUGENarrative = story tellingDialogue = conversation

5 sections: “Episodic Nature” Episodes2 lives combined by 5 sections

Characters:RobertaTwyla (Narrator)

STORY INFO

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Never statedAfrican

American?Caucasian?

They are separated by SOCIAL CLASS

$$$$$$$$

Morrison:

Experiment of the removal of all racial codes

2 characters of different races whose racial identity is crucial

WHAT IS THEIR RACE?

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