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One Hundred Kisses for Toni

One Hundred Kisses for Toni

Dave Goodwin

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
nidottu
Poetry helps in a vast majority of ways for any member of society. Good, bad, happy, sad - everyone will find poems help in their mind.Writing these poems and fighting to regain my trust in other people, took a lot of the pain inside away.Everyone has bad times, some even traumatic. The poems inside this book helped me to come to terms with some of the incidents in my life and give me hope, and maybe something to look to the future for.They're not all dark poems; some are funny, some are happy, some are sad, some show courage, and some are inspirational. This collection of poems was given to a very special person, who said, "You should write a book," and so here it is: One Hundred Kisses for Toni.
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Journey of a mad Toni: Detox Body*Stop Smoking*Build Self Esteem

Journey of a mad Toni: Detox Body*Stop Smoking*Build Self Esteem

Tonette Boyd

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
nidottu
Hey Joe you know who my type of people are, those who stay in the car a little longer to hear the ending of a beautiful song. I like people who followed me on Book of Faces and related to my journey and struggle while keeping me encouraged to prevail at the end. I believe myself to be a strong woman who is perceived as cold and mean, simply because I refuse to be mistreated, disrespected or taken for granted. Have you ever wish you could just unmeet someone? I was thinking the other day with clowns terrorizing the streets of Long Beach and a villain billionaire running for President, I do believe we need you Batman. I realize the worst distance between two people is misunderstanding and I have done that most of my life. Today I change the way I communicate with love ones in my life. Grab hold of patience and sit on hurtful words and learn a better vocabulary other than vulgar words. And I forgot to tell you Joe rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools and accepted by idiots (Yall share that information).
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The Critical Life of Toni Morrison

The Critical Life of Toni Morrison

Susan Neal Mayberry

Camden House Inc
2021
sidottu
The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction and critical writings. Winner of the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize for Best Single-Authored Book, 2019-2022 Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet despite the ever-expanding field of Morrison scholarship, no book tracing her critical reception has existed, until now. The book is as much a cultural history of America as a reception history of an American writer. Morrison worked brilliantly in many genres - fiction, of course (novels and short stories); drama/staged performance; poetry; non-fiction on historical, social, and political issues; and critical writings on the work of others and on her own work. She generated a literary-critical methodology that recognizes and embraces rather than ignores the African American presence in US literature, and thus transformed American academics' attitude toward American letters. The story of Morrison's achievement in making a home for herself - and for other women and people of color - in the stony bedrock of "white male" American literature is the subject of this book.
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The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison

The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison

University Press of Mississippi
2000
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A traditional yet fresh approach to grasping the power of Morrison's writing With essays by Yvonne Atkinson, Marc C. Conner, Susan Corey, Maria DiBattista, Barbara Johnson, Cheryl Lester, Katherine Stern, and Michael Wood Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as sagas illuminating history, race, culture, and gender politics. This gathering of eight essays by top scholars probes Morrison's novels and her growing body of nonfiction and critical work for the complex and potent aesthetic elements that have made her a major American novelist of the twentieth century. Through traditional aesthetic concepts such as the sublime, the beautiful, and the grotesque, through issues of form, narrative, and language, and through questions of affect and reader response, the nine essays in this volume bring into relief the dynamic and often overlooked range within Morrison's writing. Employing aesthetic ideas that range from the ancient Greeks to contemporary research in the black English oral tradition, The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison shows the potency of these ideas for interpreting Morrison's writing. This is a force Morrison herself has often suggested in her claims that Greek tragedy bears a striking similarity to ""Afro-American communal structures."" At the same time each essay attends to the ways in which Morrison also challenges traditional aesthetic concepts, establishing the African American and female voices that are essential to her sensibility. The result is a series of readings that simultaneously expands our understanding of Morrison's work and also provokes new thinking about an aesthetic tradition that is nearly 2,500 years old. These essays offer a rich complement to the dominant approaches in Morrison scholarship by revealing aspects of her work that purely ideological approaches have obscured or about which they have remained oddly silent. Each essay focuses particularly on the relations between the aesthetic and the ethical in Morrison's writing and between the artistic production and its role in the world at large. These relations show the rich political implications that aesthetic analysis engenders. By treating both Morrison's fiction and her nonfiction, the essays reveal a mind and imagination that have long been intimately engaged with the questions and traditions of the aesthetic domain. The result is a provocative and original contribution to Morrison scholarship, and to scholarship in American letters generally. Marc C. Conner is an assistant professor of English at Washington and Lee University. He has published articles in Studies in American Fiction and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction.
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Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

University Press of Mississippi
2012
sidottu
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The intimacy of these collaborations or conversations between Bambara (1939-1995) and her interviewers provide an excellent and necessary resource for those interested in scholarly approaches to her fiction, especially her novels The Salt Eaters (1980) and the posthumously published Those Bones Are Not My Child (1999), and her acclaimed short story collection Gorilla, My Love. The collection reveals the passion, humor, and real-life experiences of the woman whoBthrough her editing of the groundbreaking anthology of black women=s writing The Black Woman (1970) and contributions to the documentary W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four VoicesBchanged perceptions of African American culture in the modern era. The interviews present a woman that saw herself as ""a teacher who writes, a social worker who writes, a youth worker who writes, a mother who writes."" Bambara viewed herself as a cultural worker for oppressed people whose job as an artist was making, in her words, ""revolution irresistible."" Indeed, her fiction champions the working class and ""average folk,"" both of whom she felt were made invisible by mainstream American society. The volume also displays Bambara=s passionate criticism of radicalism and revolutionary philosophies that were structured by patriarchal, sexist, and heterosexual-centric paradigms. Her willingness to challenge her own ideals, as well as those that conflicted with them, marks her as one of the most forceful black writers of her era.
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The Critical Life of Toni Morrison

The Critical Life of Toni Morrison

Susan Neal Mayberry

BOYDELL BREWER LTD
2025
pokkari
The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction and critical writings. Winner of the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize for Best Single-Authored Book, 2019-2022 Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet despite the ever-expanding field of Morrison scholarship, no book tracing her critical reception has existed, until now. The book is as much a cultural history of America as a reception history of an American writer. Morrison worked brilliantly in many genres - fiction, of course (novels and short stories); drama/staged performance; poetry; non-fiction on historical, social, and political issues; and critical writings on the work of others and on her own work. She generated a literary-critical methodology that recognizes and embraces rather than ignores the African American presence in US literature, and thus transformed American academics' attitude toward American letters. The story of Morrison's achievement in making a home for herself - and for other women and people of color - in the stony bedrock of "white male" American literature is the subject of this book.
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"Buck Snort" Toni and "Wind Horse", Mountain Men

"Buck Snort" Toni and "Wind Horse", Mountain Men

Terry Grosz

Wolfpack Publishing
2018
pokkari
In 1806, the return to St. Louis of Lewis and Clark from their epic journey across the unexplored American West with their tales of untold abundance of valuable furbearers, especially beaver, excited the populace Men like General Ashley and Major Henry responded to such tales of valuable furbearers in abundance by forming a fur company, employing 100 adventurous young men as company trappers, and keelboating up the Missouri River to the Yellowstone to establish a fort and trading post. There they initiated trade with the Indians, the principal harvesters of animal furs in America, and sent their own company trappers out to harvest valuable furbearers, especially beaver. Thus begins Vince "Buck Snort" Toni and his Indian "Brother," Wind Horse's lives, first as orphans at a 'hellhole' orphanage, which by fate, exploded them into a life as fur trappers in the beautiful but dangerous largely unexplored American West In the adventurous years that followed, Buck Snort Toni and Wind Horse trapped beaver and wolves along the Bighorn River facing freezing waters, violent "Ball Lightning" thunderstorms, buffalo stampedes, a deadly Frontier web of revenge, "Winter Bears," vicious Northern Arapaho 'Sons of the Prairies', renegade Hudson Bay fur trappers, dangerous 'pasts' from their earlier days in the orphanage, killed horse thieves, and joined the brotherhood of adventurous fur trappers known today as "Mountain Men." Then when Fate forced them from the field, they discovered a 'circle of life' surrounded by a Frontier Grace... "Buck Snort" Toni and "Wind Horse," Mountain Men is an epic story of two intertwined lives, formed by destiny, forged in the fires of the American West and ultimately framed in "Frontier Grace."
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An Analysis of Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark

An Analysis of Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark

Karina Jakubowicz; Adam Perchard

Macat International Limited
2017
nidottu
Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is a seminal piece of literary criticism, and a masterclass in the critical thinking skill of interpretation. Interpretation plays a vital role in critical thinking: it focuses on interrogating accepted meanings and laying down clear definitions on which a strong argument can be built. Both history and literary history in the US have frequently revolved around understanding how Americans define themselves and each other, and Morrison’s work seeks to investigate, question, and redefine one of the central concepts in American history and American literary history: color.. Morrison turned to the classics of American literature to ask how authors had chosen to define the terms ‘black’ and ‘white.’ Instead of accepting traditional interpretations of these works, Morrison examined the way in which ‘whiteness’ defines itself through ‘blackness,’ and vice versa. Black bondage and the myths of black inferiority and savagery, she showed, allowed white America to indulge its own defining myths – viewing itself as free, civilized, and innocent. A classic of subtle and incisive interpretation, Playing in the Dark shows just how crucial and how complex simple-looking definitions can be.
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Midnight Shimmer: A Toni Diamond Mystery

Midnight Shimmer: A Toni Diamond Mystery

Nancy Warren

Ambleside Publishing
2015
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Toni Diamond wins a cruise. Will the real prize be murder?Toni Diamond, makeup artist to middle America, boards a cruise ship planning to enjoy seven days of sun, sea and relaxation. She's taking her rebellious almost-seventeen year old daughter Tiffany and her Dolly Parton-crazed mother, Linda, along for the treat. Unfortunately, the cruise isn't all bliss. Between mysterious disappearances, an outbreak of Norovirus and her sense of impending doom, Toni's barely got a moment to relax in one of the striped lounge chairs. But is there really something sinister going on or is Toni imagining things?
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My Name is Toni

My Name is Toni

Waithira Francis

Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us
2018
nidottu
My name is Toni is the story of a young Kenyan girl from the city of Nairobi, who travels to the French town of Toulouse, to pursue her studies. The book traces the difficulties Toni faces as an immigrant student, trying to integrate into France. We see the role of religion and the impact it has on Toni and the decisions she has to make about her life, as well as her transformation from an innocent girl to a sexually active woman.
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The Timeless Toni Morrison

The Timeless Toni Morrison

Peter Lang AG
2017
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The book presents a cultural study of Toni Morrison’s fiction, focused on her representations of the past and present, along with the relationship between the two. The authors analyze Morrison’s texts not solely as aesthetic, autonomous objects but as manifestations of a cultural and creative practice closely related to actuality. They examine various incorporations of history in Morrison’s writings. The contributions search out thematic continuities as well as discernable ruptures in the texts while noting futuristic tendencies in Morrison's novels and the texts’ envisagement of the human race.
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