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Sto caricando le informazioni... Recitatif (originale 1983; edizione 2022)di Toni Morrison (Autore), Zadie Smith (Introduzione)
Informazioni sull'operaRecitatif: A Story di Toni Morrison (Author) (1983)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A wonderful, absorbing short story that leaves the reader thinking. ( ) Recitatif is Toni Morrison's only short story. In her excellent introduction, Zadie Smith epitomizes on this fact to emphasize the importance of Recitatif among Morrison's works. As I pointed out in my review of Hoe het voelt om van kleur te zijn, it seems that African-American writers focus on matters quite different than writers in some other parts of the world. In this instance, I waas not rfeferring to the work of Zora Neale Hurston, but to that of other contributors to that edition, although under the growing influence of wokeism such themes are now spreading to authors in other parts of the world. World literature includes numerous works of fiction in which, at least initially or for a large part of the work it is not clear whether a protagonist is male of female. Some authors even toy with this element. Recitatif is a short fictional work in which it is not clear what ethnicity the two girls have. The work is apparently cleverly constructed to obscure any conclusive references, or simply no conclusive clues are given. Zadie Smith's introduction (37 pages) is almost as long as Morrison's story (45 pages) to describe this. While it may be a special phenomenon in the overall work of Morrison, the fact in itself should not garner that much interest. I don’t know when I first read this puzzle story, but listening to the audiobook in 2023 was familiar. Only a writer of Morrison’s stature could lay this trap without it devolving into hokey selfparody. The double obscutation of the two friends’ race, hidden from us, and of the suspect memory around which their lives pivot, hidden from them, provides the forward thrust in the short novella. That both are left deliberately obscure makes the story more mirror than tale. Dos niñas son obligadas a compartir habitación en un centro de acogida. Una blanca y otra negra. Ambas se rechazan de inmediato, pero poco a poco se dan cuenta de que tienen en común más de lo que esperaban. “La sal y la pimienta”, como las empiezan a llamar los demás, se vuelven inseparables, y con el paso del tiempo se van encontrando en distintos lugares: un restaurante, un supermercado, una manifestación, siempre en lados opuestos de los conflictos sociales. En el único relato que escribió, la gran Morrison imagina el mapa de las identidades raciales de forma alternativa y sitúa al lector en el centro de uno de sus experimentos literarios más complejos. Esta edición incluye, además, un epílogo en el que Zadie Smith ahonda en la maestría de este sofisticado artefacto literario. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
African American Fiction.
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ? A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner??for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith ??A puzzle of a story, then??a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ??experiment?? she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader.? ??Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story??the only short story Morrison ever wrote??we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif, a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, 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." We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to re Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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