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The Seer

Toni Morrison Among the Ruins

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The Seer

著者: Farah Jasmine Griffin, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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From an acclaimed scholar of Toni Morrison, an intimate and searching account of the life and the art of one of our greatest and most prophetic writers

Few critics have mapped the terrain of black American literature and culture with the range, rigor, and moral seriousness of Farah Jasmine Griffin. Now she brings her full intellectual force to bear—offering a gem of literary compression that captures the essence of an extraordinary life journey, the indelible work it produced, and the lessons it holds for us still.

Moving gracefully between biography, literary criticism, and memoir, Griffin traces Toni Morrison’s journey from Lorain, Ohio, to Howard and Cornell Universities, from single mother and trailblazing editor at Random House to Nobel laureate and global moral voice. Along the way, Griffin reveals the fierce intelligence, discipline, humor, and uncompromising vision that shaped Morrison’s art and life.

Threaded throughout is a powerful exploration of Morrison’s enduring themes—ruins and renewal, memory and prophecy, patriarchy and love—and the ways they illuminate America’s past and present. Griffin writes as both a preeminent scholar of Morrison’s work and one of our most searching critics of black American literature and culture. The result is a major reassessment of Morrison’s legacy, as well as a testament to mentorship, intellectual kinship, and shared vocation.

The Seer is a book about how a great writer is formed, how she shapes a nation’s imagination, and how, even amid fracture, she shows us how to build again.
作家 芸術・文学
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批評家のレビュー

“The Seer is an intimate and insightful introduction to one of the great artists of our time. Griffin brings her immense knowledge, skill, and sensitivity to the body of Toni Morrison’s work. A much-needed encounter as we confront the ruins of our time.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr, author of America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries

"The Seer
is a pithy, elegantly composed, reflective, and insightful book written by one of the most important scholars of African American literature and life, Farah Griffin, who both loved and was loved by her dear friend, Toni Morrison. Indeed, it is the most intimate look into Morrison’s life that we’ve had thus far." — Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"Few scholars have been able to share how consistently vast, rich, and forever yielding Toni Morrison's novels are. Farah Jasmine Griffin's The Seer enters those worlds with deep curiosity and compelling beauty, making it a sheer pleasure to read and a source of profound wisdom that achieves the impossible of rendering Morrison's words anew." — Salamishah Tillet, Pulitzer Prize winning author of In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece

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