TY - BOOK AU - Morrison,Toni TI - The source of self-regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations SN - 9780525521037 (hardcover) AV - PS 3563 M882s 2019 U1 - 814/.6 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Literatura estadounidense KW - Ensayos estadounidenses KW - Novela estadounidense N1 - "Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"--Dust jacket; Peril -- Part I: The foreigner's home. The dead of September 11 ; The foreigner's home ; Racism and fascism ; Home ; Wartalk ; The war on error ; A race in mind: the press in deed ; Moral inhabitants ; The price of wealth, the cost of care ; The habit of art ; The individual artist ; Arts advocacy ; Sarah Lawrence commencement address ; The slavebody and the blackbody ; Harlem on my mind: contesting memory -- meditation on museums, culture, and integration ; Women, race, and memory ; Literature and public life ; The Nobel lecture in literature ; Cinderella's stepsisters ; The future of time: literature and diminished expectations -- Interlude: Black matter(s). Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Race matters ; Black matter(s) ; Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature ; Academic whispers ; Gertrude Stein and the difference she makes ; Hard, true, and lasting -- Part II: God's language. James Baldwin eulogy ; The site of memory ; God's language ; Grendel and his mother ; The writer before the page ; The trouble with paradise ; On "Beloved" ; Chinua Achebe ; Introduction of Peter Sellars ; Tribute to Romare Bearden ; Faulkner and women ; The source of self-regard ; Rememory ; Memory, creation, and fiction ; Goodbye to all that: race, surrogacy, and farewell ; Invisible ink: reading the writing and writing the reading N2 - Morrison takes on social issues: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, "black matter(s)," and human rights. She looks at enduring matters of culture: the role of the artist in society, the literary imagination, the Afro-American presence in American literature and in her Nobel lecture, the power of language itself. And here too is commentary on her own work (including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby ER -