ART 330: Contemporary Humanities: 7: Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World - Part 1

For better readers, the candid memoirs of Celie, her abuse, and eventual triumph.

Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination. It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Toni Morrison was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Literature for Beloved.