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    "description": "<b>Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.</b><br><br><i>The Source of Self-Regard</i> is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11; the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., and the last by a heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin.  In the writings and speeches included here, Morrison takes on contested social issues: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, \"black matter(s),\" and human rights. She looks at enduring matters of culture: the role of the artist in society, the literary imagination, the Afro-American presence in American literature, and in her Nobel lecture, the power of language itself. And here too is piercing commentary on her own work (including <i>The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved,</i> and <i>Paradise)</i> and that of others, among them, painter and collagist  Romare Bearden, author Toni Cade Bambara, and theater director Peter Sellars. In all, <i>The Source of Self-Regard</i> is a luminous and essential addition to Toni Morrison's oeuvre.",
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