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Ahead of Banned Book Week, the Rutherford County Board of Education voted to remove six books from public school libraries including Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and "Wicked."
Beloved is the first of three novels about love and African-American history, sometimes called the Beloved Trilogy. [56] Morrison said they are intended to be read together, explaining: "The conceptual connection is the search for the beloved – the part of the self that is you, and loves you, and is always there for you."
3. “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison. First published in 1970, Morrison’s novel about a Black girl growing up during the Great Depression is a meditation on the oppressive nature of America ...
Beloved: Toni Morrison: Themes regarding slavery and violence 1987 45 26 45 Beyond Magenta: Susan Kuklin: Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other ("wants to remove from collection to ward off complaints") 2014 27 — — Big Hard Sex Criminals
Picoult's novel "Nineteen Minutes," about a school shooting, is the most banned book in Iowa under Senate File 496. She is one of the authors suing the state of Iowa over the book ban law. Number ...
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye , was published in 1970.
Beloved is a 1998 American gothic psychological horror drama film [2] directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton.Based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, the plot centers on a formerly enslaved woman after the American Civil War, her haunting by a poltergeist, and the visitation of her reincarnated daughter.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor ($9.99; Puffin Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org As a child, like so many others before and after me, I read Taylor’s ...