Thoughts on Nobel laureate Toni Morrison? Even Harold Bloom

>>8732740
catholics [small "c"] should be rounded up and executed.

Genuinely great even though she's a black woman meme on /lit/. Beloved gets too much attention. Her ideas got exhausted in her later years.

swag

I've only read Song of Solomon which was legitimately good. You won't get objective reaction because it's 4chan and /lit/ these days has been infiltrated by alt right virgins but oh well.

>>8732740
Song of Solomon is a masterpiece

>>8732749
>GAS THE PROTESTANTS
>30-YEAR WAR NOW
>>>/pol/

Although her novels typically concentrate on black women, Morrison does not identify her works as feminist. When asked in a 1998 interview "Why distance oneself from feminism?" she replied: "In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book – leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity." She went on to state that she thought it "off-putting to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things." Critics, however, have referred to her body of work as exemplifying characteristics of "postmodern feminism" by "altering Euro-American dichotomies by rewriting a history written by mainstream historians" and by her usage of shifting narration in Beloved and Paradise.

>>8732880
based

Great writer

she's a fucking ace.

>>8734556
>*I
>HAVEN'T
>READ
>HER
is that where you were going with that?

>>8732740
>tfw you will never be so good at prose that people mistake you for a prose stylist over content writer
that is a problem I would love to have and Morrison deserves to have it. she's unironically great.

>>8732740
Easily top 5 greatest living American writer. Arguably the greatest.

>>8732740
reading Beloved right now and It's good, but sometimes she goes into these endless repeating similies and analogies and it gets grating. The magical realism aspect is handled well and not super blatant.

>>8734746
also not everythng is explained and she leaves you to figure things out on your own as you go along. It's pretty good for my first book by her.

>>8734556
Fuck off with this shit meme. You aren't on /int/ or whatever retard board you're from.

>>8734665
DeLillo

She's Haruki Murakami-tier.

>>8735124
How have you come to this conclusion?

>>8732880
respect.

Ah yes, Tony Maury's On. It was a wintry summer in Robocop when her scrumptious ficctionellas first hit me like a bell hook I believe my vavorite passage is
>I'M BLACK YALL AND I'M BLACK YALL AND I'M BLIGGIDY BLACK AND IM BLACK YALL

Nobel Schmobel , what we need in this country is another

*smokes New York Times *

>>8735151
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4vIGvKpT1c

Watch the whole video

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>Race is a difficult and complicated subject
No it isn't, you're just too stupid for actually difficult and complicated ideas so you settle for something accessible and easy with unfalsifiable theories

>"Like, what is BLACKness, man? Who, like, am I? Ain't I a woman? Or ain't I not?"
>*refreshes Slate*
>*listens contemplatively to Kendrick Lamar*

>>8735206
What does this have to do with Toni Morrison?

>>8735137
Magic realism centered around the same handful of themes. They just remind me of each other. Not saying it's a good or bad thing. They're on the same level and use a very similar style. What do you think?

>>8735206
Who are you talking to

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>>8735212
She's a boring writer who fails to speak to my white male perspective

>>8735227
>boring
Subjective

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>>8735226
Whoever happens to read my post? You, dumbass?

>>8735225
>Magic realism centered around the same handful of themes.

Reductionism.

>>8735234
There is absolutely no need to ever state this in a discussion about art. It's my subjective opinion that you're a great big retard for doing this

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>>8732880
And she's right!

>>8735251
There is a need when you posture your opinion as authoritative.

>>8735254
>There is a need when you posture your opinion as authoritative.
You forgot to include any admission of subjectivity in this post. Please do not "posture your opinions as authoritative" like this ever again, you great big retard (subjectively speaking, I mean)

>>8735299
Derivative

>>8735302
Hypocritical
Oblivious
Great big retard

>>8735305
That's subjective

>>8735124
i don't think she is on his 'tier' as i think she's amazing while Murakami is more like 'pretty good' but i agree that they remind me of each other. like i see a lot of the same imagery used even.

ill give a contrary opinion (used to be the majority opinion here lel) and say she's awful. song of solomon was one of the worst books i've ever read.

this has absolutely nothing to do with identity politics/alt right/whatever, i'm as anti-/pol/ as they come.

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>>8732740
>"Even Harold Bloom endorses her!"
>/lit/ as a collective gasps

>>8736216
Great opinion. I like how you don't support a single thing with a meaningful argument. 10/10

>>8736296
op asked for thoughts not a thesis

she just whines about >muh racism with super heavy handed symbolism. there's nothing subtle about it. lee harper tier, arguably worse.