Editions Bourgois published at the start of the school year the only short story ever written by the American novelist Toni Morrison, Recitative. Nobel Prize in 1993, author of the very famous Beloved in 1988, which won him the Pulitzer Prize, Morrison wrote this short text in 1983. Very clearly, this “short story” sparkles in … Read more
The culture war is also being waged in America’s schools. Over the last year, more than 1,600 books were banned from thousands of schools, thanks in part to the efforts of organizations linked to conservative groups. The Arlington Public Library (Virginia) has said enough. “Of course I respect the right of a parent to say … Read more
If you are interested in the history of black Americans, in the evolution of the mores of American society in general, you cannot miss Toni Morrison. To give you a little insight, she won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, in short the list is long. But if the good lady had not … Read more
Chloe Ardelia Wofford, better known by her pseudonym, Toni Morrison, was a prominent American novelist of African American descent. His work reveals with clear fidelity and perfect lyrics, the slavery, discrimination, affliction and helplessness that the African-American race has suffered in the United States. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize … Read more