Resena: Toni Morrison Nobel Prize-winning American author

In her first novel for five years, Toni Morrison fashions a timely parable about the United States's traumatic birth. In her essay 'Playing in the Dark', Toni Morrison looked back to the founding of America and observed: 'What was distinctive in the New World was, first of all, its claim to freedom, and second, the presence of the unfree within the heart of the democratic experiment. This sentiment - that ideals of economic and political liberty were dependent on brutal enslavement - is the starting place of all her work, and this, her first novel for five years, is another distillation of it. In her essays and novels, she has pursued - and mostly won - the argument that the history and literature of America were predicated on the exclusion of the black part of its population, that the myths of nation-building contained an explicit or an unspoken 'us' and 'them'. That this book will be published in the week before her nation may choose a President who for the first time could eclipse that divide, who could make 'them' 'us', lends it a fundamental resonance.

Idioma: INGLES
Categoría: Lengua y Literatura, Narrativa

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