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The Toni Morrison Society is a non-profit literary organization that consists of scholars and lay readers of Morrison's works from around the world.
- About The Society
The Toni Morrison Society was founded May 28, 1993, at the...
- Programs
International Annotated Bibliography of Morrison...
- Resources
Resources - The Official Website of The Toni Morrison...
- Bench
The Bench by the Road Project is a memorial history and...
- Memberships
The Society offers student, regular, lifetime and sustaining...
- Author Chronology
1970. The Bluest Eye, her first novel, is published by Holt,...
- Bibliography
Bibliography - The Official Website of The Toni Morrison...
- Officers
Officers - The Official Website of The Toni Morrison Society
- Biennial Conference Series
The First Biennial, Toni Morrison and the American South,...
- Articles
the toni morrison society ARTICLES. Abádi-Nagy, Zoltán....
- About The Society
- The Truth She Offered on White Supremacy
- Her Immense Impact on The Publishing World, and Women Writers in Particular
- How A Writer Can Grant More Authority to The “Unfree”
- She Eliminated The “White Gaze” from Her Work
“Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” a documentary released earlier this year, rolls through interview clips between Morrison and various journalists. One exchange in particular stuck out: her 1993 interview with PBS’ Charlie Rose. Responding to a question about experiencing racism, Morrison said people who practice racism are “bereft, there is someth...
During her editorship at Penguin Random House, Morrison published major works by Toni Cade Bambara, Muhammad Ali and Angela Davis, among others. In the 1970s, Morrison also oversaw the effort to compile a series of images that detailed the black experience in the U.S. The resulting research and edits led to the publication of “The Black Book.” Wall...
Morrison said part of her mission was to focus on the lives she called “the unfree at the heart of the democratic experiment.” “Beloved,” which is among Morrison’s most cherished novels, is about a mother who escaped enslavement in Kentucky and fled to Ohio, and making the decision to kill her own child rather than face being forced back into a lif...
Morrison often spoke of how black writers would be encouraged to write for a white audience. She called it — when writers deferred to the “white gaze” — a form of “self-flagellation.” Instead, Morrison, as she said in this year’s documentary, “didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and be among. It’s us.” The PBS NewsHour’s Joh...
Aug 6, 2019 · Aug. 6, 2019. Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate in literature whose best-selling work explored black identity in America — and in particular the often crushing experience of black women —...
Jun 17, 2022 · 20. The Toni Morrison Society was founded in 1993. The society is dedicated to supporting the teaching, reading, and critical examination of Toni Morrison's works.
Jul 28, 2008 · July 28, 2008. SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. Toni Morrison has said that her acclaimed novel “Beloved,” which features the ghost of a baby killed by her enslaved black mother, came out of the need...
Jan 27, 2020 · A Critic at Large. Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision. “The Bluest Eye,” which was published fifty years ago, cut a new path through the American literary landscape by placing...
