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A review by eedubs5
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
4.0
Really brilliant, as expected. I thought that the essays on race (“Moral Inhabitants,” “The Slavebody and the Blackbody”) were the strongest. Some of these essays were very academic— I enjoyed them, but I’m not sure that all people reading would get warm and fuzzy feelings reading literary analysis/criticism.
Lots of brilliantly reasoned essays here. Morrison does a good job of leading the reader through her mind.
“The dishonor associated with having been enslaved does not inevitably doom one’s heirs to vilification, demonization, or crucifixion. What sustains these latter is racism. Much of what made New World slavery exceptional was the highly identifiable racial signs of its population[.]”
I’d like to return to the last 1/3 of the book after I read more of Morrison’s novels.
Lots of brilliantly reasoned essays here. Morrison does a good job of leading the reader through her mind.
“The dishonor associated with having been enslaved does not inevitably doom one’s heirs to vilification, demonization, or crucifixion. What sustains these latter is racism. Much of what made New World slavery exceptional was the highly identifiable racial signs of its population[.]”
I’d like to return to the last 1/3 of the book after I read more of Morrison’s novels.