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Recitatif by Toni Morrison

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Name: Toni Morrison
Birth Date: February 18, 1931
Place of Birth: Lorain, Ohio
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Toni Morrison
12383 words, approx. 41.3 pages
[This entry was updated by Catherine E. Lewis (University of South Carolina) from the entry by Denise Heinze (Western Carolina University) in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series.] Toni Morrison became a novelist for the ages when...
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Biography of Toni Morrison
9575 words, approx. 31.9 pages
Toni Morrison is one of America's most important writers of fiction. She has received critical acclaim, most notably the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987), the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon (1977), and the eighteen-thou...
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Biography of Toni Morrison
8377 words, approx. 27.9 pages
When her picture appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1981 and her fourth novel, Tar Baby, was on the year's best-seller list, Toni Morrison was an anomaly in two respects: she is a black writer who has achieved national prominence and popularity, and sh...
 


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Recitatif Information
759 words, approx. 3 pages
"Recitatif" is Toni Morrison's only published short story. The title alludes to a style of musical declamation that hovers between song and ordinary speech; it is used for dialogic and narrative interludes during operas and oratories. The term...


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Recitatif by Toni Morrison

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