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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, which tells the story of Macon “Milkman” Dead III and his extended family as they navigate the challenges facing African-Americans in the USA of the 20th century. As he travels from his home in the North to the South, where his ancestors are originally from, Milkman comes to understand his own identity and develops a stronger, more compassionate relationship with his family and community. Toni Morrison is one of America’s most acclaimed living writers, having received awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in the course of her decades-long career.
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TONI MORRISON
AMERICAN WRITER
Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931.Notable works:The Bluest Eye (1970), novelBeloved (1987), novelA Mercy (2008), novelToni Morrison is an award-winning writer and a Nobel Laureate. She is widely considered to be one of the most important American writers of our time.
Morrison is a writer of novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction. She is also an editor and a professor emeritus at Princeton University. She has received various prizes for her work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved, and most notably, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
She is an African-American writer, and her work explores the experiences of black people in America. Her success and her status as an intellectual and as a Nobel Laureate mark her out as one of the most influential black American writers of the past decades. Slavery, racial oppression and the experience of being black in America are important elements in her fiction. Other significant themes include family, motherhood and love. Morrison’s style is unique: her use of language is poetic, and her use of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) brings her characters to life.
SONG OF SOLOMON
A NOVEL ABOUT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN THE 20TH CENTURY IN THE FORM OF A COMING-OF-AGE STORY
Genre: novelReference edition: Morrison, T. (2016) Song of Solomon. London: Vintage.1stedition: 1977Themes: the African-American experience in the 20th century, racism, violence, family, love, identity, flight as escapeSong of Solomon, which is set between 1931 and 1963, tells the story of, Milkman, a young African-American man who is searching for his identity. Milkman is the son of a wealthy property owner and the grandson of the first coloured doctor in his city. While he does not enjoy the same rights and opportunities as white Americans, he is nevertheless privileged because of his wealthy background. The novel is his coming-of-age story, in which he searches for his place in the African-American community, learns about his family’s history and finally learns to care about other people.
The novel explores the experience of being black in America in the 20th century, before the Civil Rights Movement had succeed in obtaining equal rights for black and white Americans. The legacy of slavery, segregation and racism – which still impacts American society today – is explored through the experiences of Milkman’s family and other members of his community. The importance of knowing one’s past and connecting with the people in one’s life are at the heart of this novel.
