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The North Star with Shaun King

The Liberatory Power of Toni Morrison’s Pen

thenorthstar
Aug 09, 2019
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The universe that we’ve inherited from Toni Morrison is: The pell mell swoon of Jazz and its mysterious crazy in love triangle set against the backdrop of the Great Migration of African Americans to NYC, caught up in its golden glow and cruel tease; the Blue-eyed devastation of Pecola, dreaming her truth, against incest, in the grinding poverty of segre…

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