The Origin of Others

by Toni Morrison

Book Overview

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?

Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674976452
• ISBN13: 9780674976450
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 7.2"