The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations
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- ISBN: 0525521119
- ISBN: 9780525521112
- ISBN: 9780525521037
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1 online resource (ix, 354 pages) - Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
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Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 26, 2019). |
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