ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”
Read by Sandra Seoane-Serí
Introduced by Dr. Daphne Lamothe, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Smith College
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and professor. Celebrated for her powerful and richly expressive examinations of the experience of Black women in an unjust world, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel Beloved (1987). In 1993 she became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, as an author “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect …
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