UnitToniMorrison.pptVIP

Unit 16 Toni Morrison (1931—) Aims of Teaching 1.???Introduce the writer to students 2. Familiarize students with ideas of the work and the language the writer used 3. Give them some knowledge of American black literature Key Points to Teach: Morrison’s life and artistic achievements Morrison’s thematic concern Morrison’s artistic features employed A brief introduction of her major novels A discussion of her short story: Recitatif Her Life Winner of 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, first African American to receive this prize Born in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, basis for some of her fictional settings B.A. Howard Univ; M.A. Cornell, thesis on woolf and Faulkner, taught at Howard Univ since 1989, editor for Random House and given numerous public lectures, specializing in African-American literature. made her debut as a novelist in 1970, A member since 1981 of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her Achievements Im just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me. ——Toni Morrison in Salon Magazine American author, who has been awarded a number of literary distinctions, among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. And Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In her work Toni Morrison has explored the experience and roles of black women in a racist and male dominated society. In the center of her complex and multilayered narratives is the unique cultural inheritance of African-Americans. Known For her epic power, unerring ear for dialogue, and her poetically-charged and richly-expressive depictions of Black America. Her Major Novels The Bluest Eyes (1970) In 1940s America, a little black girl, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her familys frailty and the worlds cruelty. …… Sula