Paradise, Toni Morrison
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Paradise, Toni Morrison
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Paradise
Oclc number
38117575
Responsibility statement
Toni Morrison
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 5.8, 17.0, 19891.
Summary
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out there ... where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present
Table Of Contents
Ruby -- Mavis -- Grace -- Seneca -- Divine -- Patricia -- Consolata -- Lone -- Save-Marie
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Genre
Subject
- Psychological fiction
- Fictional Work
- Femmes -- Violence envers -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Magic realist fiction
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- Oklahoma -- Fiction
- Novels
- Domination masculine (Structure sociale) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Afro-Americans -- Fiction
- Petites villes -- Oklahoma -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Fiction
- Colorism
- Historical fiction
- Small cities
- Conflit de générations -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Oklahoma -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Small cities -- Oklahoma -- Fiction
- Oklahoma
- Communal living
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- African Americans + Violence against -- Fiction
- Noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Communal living -- Fiction
- Colorisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- African Americans + Violence against
- Women + Violence against -- Fiction
- Novels (texts)
- Conflict of generations
- Male domination (Social structure)
- African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Fiction
- African American towns + Intentional communities + Refuge + Generational trauma + Scapegoats and scapegoating + Fiction
- Male domination (Social structure) -- Fiction
- Communes (Contre-culture) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Colorism -- Fiction
- African Americans
- Women + Violence against
- Romans
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- Classification3
- Creator1
- Genre8
- Subject38
- Psychological fiction
- Fictional Work
- Femmes -- Violence envers -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Magic realist fiction
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- Oklahoma -- Fiction
- Novels
- Domination masculine (Structure sociale) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Afro-Americans -- Fiction
- Petites villes -- Oklahoma -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Fiction
- Colorism
- Historical fiction
- Small cities
- Conflit de générations -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Oklahoma -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Small cities -- Oklahoma -- Fiction
- Oklahoma
- Communal living
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- African Americans + Violence against -- Fiction
- Noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Communal living -- Fiction
- Colorisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- African Americans + Violence against
- Women + Violence against -- Fiction
- Novels (texts)
- Conflict of generations
- Male domination (Social structure)
- African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Fiction
- African American towns + Intentional communities + Refuge + Generational trauma + Scapegoats and scapegoating + Fiction
- Male domination (Social structure) -- Fiction
- Communes (Contre-culture) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Colorism -- Fiction
- African Americans
- Women + Violence against
- Romans
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1