The little white attic

My essay in Eng2333 at UiO.  Jazz , Toni Morrison’s response to the common identification of the Jazz Age with white people (Carabi...

A literary work is a fairytale, and the characters don't exist outside it. I know that. But sometimes my mind wanders and I forget.  Ri...

I've just read Angels Carabi's interview with Toni Morrison. In it, Toni Morrison explains pretty much everything she does in Jazz :...

Of the 6 novels I've read over the past few months ( Shirley , Daniel Deronda , The Moonstone , Despair , Jazz , Strange Case of Dr Jeky...

Warning: This book contains adultery, miscarriages, mother hunger, depression, irrational behaviour, slavery, racism, child abandonment, s...

We all have literary prejudices, don't we? Like some people refuse to read Nabokov, at least Lolita , because they think it romanticises...

1/ Anna Karenina (Lev Tolstoy)  2/ War and Peace (Lev Tolstoy)  3/ The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)  4/ Notes from Undergroun...

Does anybody now like to read about the black-white conflict? Slavery? Segregation? Civil rights movement? Does anybody now like to read abo...

1/ Charlotte Bronte's reply to a critic: "Whenever I do write another book, I think I will have nothing of what you call "mel...

1/ Jason is a douchebag. Period.  I am aware:  a) Jason isn't close to any of his siblings. He doesn't really have anybody.  b) ...

I know I haven't written much about Toni Morrison, but she's my favourite authoress of all time. I love her works and admire her, fo...