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Toni Morrison - Online Term Paper

Toni Morrison

"The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows:/--/ one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.." this is an excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel, the man who proposed the idea of a Nobel Prize. Alfred Nobel had an interest that he developed in literature during his early youth and lasted all throughout his life. In his library we can find a variety of book in different languages. Further evidence of literary interest was when Nobel was beginning to write fiction during the last years of his life. Literature was the FOURTH prize he mentioned in his will.

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have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. I have decided to discuss a wonderful, powerful African American women.

Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1993), remains unparalleled in her ability to use her considerable literary talents as a voice for her passionate concerns about the condition of contemporary African Americans, particularly women. "I have never yet met a boring black person," she has commented, and her incisively drawn characters reflect this (Samuels and Hudson-Weems, 1). Of equal importance to Morrison's work, as Wilfred D. Samuels and Clenora Hudson-Weems point out, is her wish to " 'tell somebody something,' something that has been lost and forgotten, stories that have not been passed on" (Samuels and Hudson-Weems, 139). That she has done so with impressive results is attested to by her popularity with white and black readers alike, her place on university syllabi across the country, and her literary ...

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Added: 1/15/2014 01:43:44 AM
Submitted By: evelyn305
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 669
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