Toni Morrison 托尼莫里森.ppt

Toni Morrison ——the only African-American writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.  Toni Morrison Occupation: Novelist, editor and professor Genres: African American literature Writing Style: epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters Notable awards: Life Born: February 18, 1931 (Lorain, Ohio, US) A working-class family grandfather was born a slave her family lost their land and were forced to work in the mines and mills of the industrialized North Life 1964——a turning point of Morrison Major Works Life First novel: The Bluest Eye (1970) In 1987 Beloved became a critical success and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction In 1993 Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. A Brief Analysis of Beloved Background Main Characters Writing features Themes Feminism Racialism * Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988; Nobel Prize in Literature 1993; National Humanities Medal 2000 Lorain, Ohio Lorain was a small industrial town populated with immigrant Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. 1949-1953: Howard University (B.A. in English) 1955: Cornell University (a Master of Arts degree in English) 1955-1957: English instructor at Texas Southern University 1957: returned to Howard to teach English a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1958 Morrison married Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect got divorced in 1964 worked as a textbook editor in New York began her writing career The Bluest Eye (1970) Sula (1974) Song of Solomon (1977) Tar Baby (1981) Beloved (1987) Jazz (1992) Paradise (1999) Love (2003) A Mercy (2008) Toni Morrison, who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality. its off-putting to some readers, who may feel that Im involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I dont subscribe to patriarchy, and I dont think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think its a question of