The Origin Of Others by Toni Morrison
A probing collection of reflections that examines how societies invent and enforce the category of the “other,” tracing how literature, history and law have shaped racial identity and the violence that sustains it; the book considers how stories—from canonical fiction to public narrative—both create boundaries and offer resources for empathy and resistance, looking at how children are taught to distinguish who belongs and who is excluded. It interrogates the roots of exclusion in American life, the uses of fear and fantasy in justifying dispossession, and the responsibility of artists and readers to reckon with painful histories in order to imagine more inclusive futures. Ultimately it is an elegiac, intellectually rigorous meditation on memory, imagination, and the work required to recognize and dismantle the mechanisms that produce otherness.
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- 2017
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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