Презентация на тему Toni Morrison

Prize-winning American novelist. Among her best known novels are

The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved.

a child, Morrison read with interest; among her favorite

authors were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy. Morrison's father told her numerous folktales of the black community (a method of storytelling that would later work its way into Morrison's writings).
In 1949 Morrison entered Harvard University, where she received a B.A. in English in 1953. After graduation, Morrison became an English instructor at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas (1955–57).

In 1958 she married Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect and fellow faculty member at Howard University.

an informal group of poets and writers at Howard

who met to discuss their work. She went to one meeting with a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. She later developed the story as her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970). She wrote it while raising two children and teaching at Howard.
A rising literary star, Morrison was appointed to the National Council on the Arts in 1980.
Her best known works are: “Sula”(1973), “Song of Solomon” (1977), “Tar baby”(1981), “Jazz” (1992) and many others.
Morrison’s novels deal with the efforts of African-Americans to survive cultural, economical and social disruptions in their communities.

story about an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily

escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio.

Beloved's main character, Sethe, kills Margaret’s daughter and tries to kill her other three children when a posse arrives in Ohio to return them to Sweet Home, the Kentucky plantation from which Sethe recently fled. A woman presumed to be her daughter, called Beloved, returns years later to haunt Sethe's home.