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Cargando... The Origin of Others (2017 original; edición 2017)por Toni Morrison (Autor), Ta-Nehisi Coates (Prólogo)
Información de la obraThe origin of others por Toni Morrison (2017)
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  mykl-s | Mar 3, 2024 |   This exploration challenges a whitewashed view of not only history but a culture which is defined in the States more by color than by any real defining characteristics of culture such as the characteristics of a people – intellectual achievement, religion, food, customs and social patterns. In this limited definition becoming American means becoming white – an assimilation that the European immigrants of a century ago could achieve but persons of color, could not. Perhaps what is most powerful is Morrison's discussion of the ways in which a nation's obsession with color has outweighed any insight into the culture or the characteristics of people. Immigrants, after so long, where not identified as Irish, as Italian, as Polish, or Russian, etc. after they became able to identify as white. And Morrison illustrates this obsession through the nation's literature, the indoctrination of a racial power structure through the words of Flannery O'Connor, an illustration of stereotypes assigned by color in the memoirs of Mary Prince. The discussion illustrates that the stereotypes used to demean black Americans, words like 'savage' or 'animalistic' became embodied by the white slave-owners rather than the slaves. Yet the codified language became ingrained in white culture. And more powerful is the discussion of a kind of moral relativity that places other considerations of right and wrong as secondary to color. The acceptance in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom of incest when compared to the one drop rule, or in Morrison's own Beloved of killing one's children (to escape the pain of slavery) if it weakens the power of the Fugitive Slave Act, are vivid examples of the way in which color, either consciously or subconsciously, and the desire to maintain a color-based power structure have made other considerations of right and wrong secondary. An important read. And a much-needed discussion for anyone that thought society had ever evolved to the point the problems of racism were in the past. And a much-needed starting point for self-examination for anyone who considers their self a human. (  ) DAGray08 | Jan 1, 2024 | I thought that at just over a hundred pages this would be a fairly quick read. But no. It's very densely written, digging thoughtfully into important subjects. Every sentence needs to be turned over and over in the mind to extract some juice. I'm going to have to read it again, I think. (  ) JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 | Of the six (short) essays, four are excellent, with Being or Becoming the Stranger head and shoulders above the rest – although Narrating the Other is a close second, if you've read Beloved. Being a white European, Morrison's deep insight as an African-American is always a raw, shuddering education. Where we meet is in the whole business of Othering, which she elucidates from a perspective I can't have, yet wholly share. Years ago, this book would have enraged me; now, it's a clear explanation for what's going on around all of us every day. ( ) ortgard | Sep 22, 2022 | ) JReynolds1959 | Oct 12, 2021 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: La visin de la gran Toni Morrison, Premio Nobel de Literatura, sobre la vida y la identidad racial. Siempre ador su franqueza y admir la forma en que ocup su lugar en el mundo. Cre en ella. Ella lideraba y nosotros la seguamos: nos ense la belleza del lenguaje y el poder que se desata cuando se une a un gran corazn y a una mente feroz. Qu es la raza y por qu es importante? Qu motiva la tendencia humana a construir Otros? Por qu la presencia de esos Otros nos asusta tanto? Basndose en sus Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison aborda estas y otras cuestiones que dominan cada vez ms la poltica mundial: la raza, el miedo, las fronteras, los movimientos de masas, el deseo de pertenencia... En su bsqueda de respuestas, la novelista revisa cuidadosamente sus propios recuerdos, as como la historia, la poltica y, especialmente, la literatura, examinando autores como Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway y William Faulkner. A travs de ellos analiza las nociones de pureza racial, el origen de la raza negra como una herramienta para definir una sociedad inmigrante con una gran variedad de procedencias y costumbres, o las formas en que la literatura emplea el color de la piel para definir a los personajes o conducir la narrativa. Con un prlogo del ganador del National Book Award, Ta-Nehisi Coates. La crtica ha dicho sobre el libro... El origen de los otros est lleno de sabios argumentos, que se vuelven an ms persuasivos por la prosa elegante y su rechazo hacia aquel imaginario sobre la otredad de la que todos somos infelices herederos. Leer este inteligente, inquisitivo e inspirador libro es familiarizarse con una autora enemiga de esa herencia y una amiga vital del proyecto humano. Unos ensayos ricamente adornados con ancdotas y recuerdos, pero profundamente basados en el anlisis literario... El origen de los otros es polticamente proftico. La laureada premio Nobel teje en este libro memorias e historia a travs de un mordaz anlisis literario, y nos ofrece reflexiones sensibles sobre la configuracin de la alteridad... Tan ntida como cabra de esperar de tan aclamada autora. Morrison ha encontrado una voz y un estilo puro y directo, [...] ha desvelado las formas en las que la violencia se trenza con la pasin para redimir un pasado que vuelve y duele. Un delicioso ensayo que nos muestra lo que no nos cuentan otros manuales. Morrison vuelve a sorprender con su facilidad para hacer llegar su discurso racista en los barrios obreros y para conseguir aglutinar a gente diferente bajo un mismo miedo: los dems. Y sobre la autora... Toni era un alma comprensiva con los escritores ms jvenes como yo. [...] Una vez escrib que a Thomas Hardy le habra encantado La isla de los caballeros, pero debera haber dicho que a Hardy le habra encantado esta escritora. Toni... .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book is pocket size and only a bit more than 100 pages, so we don't read everything discussed in her six lectures. Still, much is covered and I'm left with the feeling that nothing important is left out. She explains why and how she has written her important novels, gives examples from her life, discusses history and politics.
It's about slavery, immigration, globalization, the psychology and social meanings of blackness, foreignness, forced and voluntary movement from place to place in the past and especially now. A book every American should read. (