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Recitatif : a story

Title
  1. Recitatif : a story / Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith.
Published by
  1. New York ; Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022]
  2. ©2022
Author
  1. Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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Additional authors
  1. Smith, Zadie
Description
  1. xliii, 39 pages; 19 cm
Summary
  1. A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison--the only one she ever wrote--about race and the relationships that shape us through life, with an introduction by Zadie Smith. Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four moths together as roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable at the time, they lose touch as they grow older, only to find each other later at a diner, then at a grocery store, and against at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and in disagreement each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Written in 1980 and anthologized in a number of collections, this is the first time Recitatif is being published as a stand-alone hardcover. In the story, Twyla's and Roberta's races remain ambitious. We know that one is white and one is black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the women the girls tormented at the orphanage? Morrison herself described this story 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." Recitatif is a remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and about how perceptions are made tangible by reality. --
Subject
  1. United States
  2. Novellas
  3. Short stories
  4. Fiction
  5. Race relations
  6. United States > Race relations > Fiction
  7. Female friendship > Fiction
  8. Interracial friendship > Fiction
  9. Interpersonal relations > Fiction
  10. White people > Race identity > Fiction
  11. African Americans > Race identity > Fiction
  12. Women, White > Fiction
  13. African American women > Fiction
Genre/Form
  1. Fiction.
  2. Short stories.
  3. Novellas.
Call number
  1. Sc C 22-92
Note
  1. "Originally collected in Confirmation : an anthology of African-American women, edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka, published by William Morrow & Company, New York, in 1983"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Author
  1. Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019, author.
Title
  1. Recitatif : a story / Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith.
Publisher
  1. New York ; Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022]
Copyright date
  1. ©2022
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Added author
  1. Smith, Zadie, writer of introduction.
LCCN
  1. 2021944118
ISBN
  1. 9780593315033 (hardcover)
  2. 0593315030 (hardcover)
Research call number
  1. Sc C 22-92
  2. JFC 22-28
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