[Lexoni] [e-gramatas] The Source of Self-Regard: Selected
Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
By Toni Morrison
Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most
important essays and speeches, spanning four decades.These pages give us
her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power
of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her
heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault
lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the
press, money, "black matter(s)," human rights, the artist in society, the
Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive
critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz,
Beloved, Paradise) and that of others.An essential collection from an
essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary
elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that
have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring
voice."Profoundly insightful. . . . Speaks to today's social and political
moment as
