TIME Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (TIME MagazineInstagram)「Toni Morrison, who died at the age of 88 on Aug. 5, is not the first black woman writer I ever encountered,” writes author Tayari Jones (@tayari). “Morrison’s first novel, ‘The Bluest Eye,’ begins with an excerpt from the Dick and Jane books, indicting the compulsory whiteness of American education in the 1950s and its sickening effect on children. Born in 1970, I grew up with a steady diet of fiction and poetry by writers who ‘looked like me.’ Dick and Jane were cast to the dustbin in favor of African folktales and the novels of Virginia Hamilton and Mildred Taylor. So, when I read ‘The Bluest Eye’ as a teenager and was gobsmacked by the sheer genius of the work, it wasn’t because I had never seen myself in a book. It was because I had never read a book this good.” Jones continues, “All of her novels center on the lives of people who struggle to find their place in a country that doesn’t always afford them true ownership on the land upon which they stand, the soil in which they find themselves rooted. They are treated like unwelcome but necessary tenants, that America requires in order to function. Morrison didn’t just tell these stories of these people—her people, our people, us—she elevated them.” Photograph © by Jill Krementz; All Rights Reserved」8月10日 23時00分 - time

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Toni Morrison, who died at the age of 88 on Aug. 5, is not the first black woman writer I ever encountered,” writes author Tayari Jones (@tayari). “Morrison’s first novel, ‘The Bluest Eye,’ begins with an excerpt from the Dick and Jane books, indicting the compulsory whiteness of American education in the 1950s and its sickening effect on children. Born in 1970, I grew up with a steady diet of fiction and poetry by writers who ‘looked like me.’ Dick and Jane were cast to the dustbin in favor of African folktales and the novels of Virginia Hamilton and Mildred Taylor. So, when I read ‘The Bluest Eye’ as a teenager and was gobsmacked by the sheer genius of the work, it wasn’t because I had never seen myself in a book. It was because I had never read a book this good.” Jones continues, “All of her novels center on the lives of people who struggle to find their place in a country that doesn’t always afford them true ownership on the land upon which they stand, the soil in which they find themselves rooted. They are treated like unwelcome but necessary tenants, that America requires in order to function. Morrison didn’t just tell these stories of these people—her people, our people, us—she elevated them.” Photograph © by Jill Krementz; All Rights Reserved


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