The Source of Self-regard
Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · January 14, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR).
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- Who it’s for
- A collected voice for reading, rereading, and keeping close at hand.
- Genres
- Essay Collections, Black Lit Crit, Feminist Lit Crit
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, January 14, 2020
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin.
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She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.
Close Reading
A collected voice for reading, rereading, and keeping close at hand.
Come here for
- essays, speeches, meditations
- a layered, reflective reading rhythm
Expect
- lyric prose
- ideas meant for study and slow return
Where it sits
| Essay Collections | 56% |
|---|---|
| Black Lit Crit | 34% |
| Feminist Lit Crit | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African American Literary Collections
- Essay Collections
- Speeches Collection
- Authors
- Toni Morrison
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- January 14, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- African American Literary Collections