{"product_id":"what-moves-at-the-margin-selected-nonfiction-9781604730173","title":"What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction","description":"What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison (b. 1931) was a new editor at Random House and a beginning novelist, to 2002 when she was a professor at Princeton University and Nobel Laureate. Even in the early days of her career, in between editing other writers, writing her own novels, and raising two children, she found time to speak out on subjects that mattered to her. From the reviews and essays written for major publications to her moving tributes to other writers to the commanding acceptance speeches for major literary awards, Morrison has consistently engaged as a writer outside the margins of her fiction. These works provide a unique glimpse into Morrison's viewpoint as an observer of the world, the arts, and the changing landscape of American culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first section of the book, \"Family and History,\" includes Morrison's writings about her family, Black women, Black history, and her own works. The second section, \"Writers and Writing,\" offers her assessments of writers she admires and books she reviewed, edited at Random House, or gave a special affirmation to with a foreword or an introduction. The final section, \"Politics and Society,\" includes essays and speeches where Morrison addresses issues in American society and the role of language and literature in the national culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong other pieces, this collection includes a reflection on 9\/11, reviews of such seminal books by Black writers as Albert Murray's South to a Very Old Place and Gayl Jones's Corregidora, an essay on teaching moral values in the university, a eulogy for James Baldwin, and Morrison's Nobel lecture. Taken together, What Moves at the Margin documents the response to our time by one of American literature's most thoughtful and eloquent writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781604730173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 6.56w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/07\/2008 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2008 pg. 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/19\/2008 pg. 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2008 pg. 54\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Toni Morrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661603795100,"sku":"9781604730173","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b2642236-86b9-486e-884d-441719095f18.jpg?v=1603899827","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/what-moves-at-the-margin-selected-nonfiction-9781604730173","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}