Rachel Kadish: Transcendence and Text
I love recognizing Toni Morrison’s influence on a writer as I am reading a book. Reading Rachel...
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Toni Morrison and A. J. Verdelle: For the Love of Words—The Connection Between Two Women Writers
A. J. Verdelle recently published a book called Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship...
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Invisible Connections: The Hidden Web of Women Writers
In the years that my sister Maria and I have been writing for Nasty Women Writers, one of the...
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Memorials to the Victims of the Middle Passage: Listening to Woman Writer Toni Morrison
In several interviews after the publication of her 1987 novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison laments the...
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Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Woman Writer on Slavery and the Haunting that Persists.
Woman writer Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a novel about the enslavement of Black Americans and its...
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Toni Cade Bambara: How to Care for Oneself While Healing The All (American Woman Writer 1939-1995)
While reading adrienne maree brown’s Pleasure Activism for #NastyWomenWriters, I was stopped in my...
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Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Women Writers on Writing
I guess it is true that humans often resist change. Hold on to tired old things that are no longer...
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Toni Morrison’s Sula: Available to and for her own imagination—a rare kind of freedom and a black woman writer’s manifesto.
Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973) has long been one of my favorite books. Besides simply wanting to...
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