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Recitatif : a story / Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©2022Edition: [First edition]Description: xliii, 39 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593315033
  • 0593315030
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online Version:: RecitatifDDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23/eng/20220111
LOC classification:
  • PS3563.O8749 R43 2022
NLM classification:
  • Morrison, T.
Summary: A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison--the only one she ever wrote--about race and the relationships that shape us through life, with an introduction by Zadie Smith. Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four moths together as roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable at the time, they lose touch as they grow older, only to find each other later at a diner, then at a grocery store, and against at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and in disagreement each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Written in 1980 and anthologized in a number of collections, this is the first time Recitatif is being published as a stand-alone hardcover. In the story, Twyla's and Roberta's races remain ambitious. We know that one is white and one is black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the women the girls tormented at the orphanage? Morrison herself described this story as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." Recitatif is a remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and about how perceptions are made tangible by reality.Other editions: Reprint of manifestation of:: Baraka, Amiri Confirmation, an anthology of African American women
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Print book for loan Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection PS3563.O8749 R43 2022 1 Available 31794003187458
Book on Reserve Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg Reserve Books (Short-Term Checkouts) PS3563.O8749 R43 2022 Available 31826003498020

"Originally collected in Confirmation : an anthology of African-American women, edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka, published by William Morrow & Company, New York, in 1983"--Title page verso

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison--the only one she ever wrote--about race and the relationships that shape us through life, with an introduction by Zadie Smith. Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four moths together as roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable at the time, they lose touch as they grow older, only to find each other later at a diner, then at a grocery store, and against at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and in disagreement each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Written in 1980 and anthologized in a number of collections, this is the first time Recitatif is being published as a stand-alone hardcover. In the story, Twyla's and Roberta's races remain ambitious. We know that one is white and one is black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the women the girls tormented at the orphanage? Morrison herself described this story as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." Recitatif is a remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and about how perceptions are made tangible by reality.

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