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Bloom seemed most alarmed at what had befallen Morrison
In 1994 Harold Bloom held forth on Charlie Rose’s old show about his Western canon project and disparaged the artistic merit of Maya Angelou Alice Walker and Morrison's work
Knopf published a new collection of Morrison’s lectures titled “Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon” with notes and an introduction by Claudia Brodsky
Stanley Crouch declaimed “Beloved” a “blackface Holocaust novel” in 1987
She is putting these books on the grill.
Serpell uses the occasion of “The Bluest Eye” to wonder about cultural maladies
Her “Beloved” chapter includes a passage on the multiple judgments among the characters of Sethe’s murder
Bloom could detect in her writing some Woolf some Faulkner and when he lost their trace in “Beloved” the book lost him
Serpell learned a lot about Black cultural traditions that ground her aesthetics.
There are moments in the assessments of each book where I could hear a sizzle.
It is the rigor of a mind.
Her mind is alive.
The critical enterprise of “On Morrison” corresponds with a moral imperative to keep Morrison on our lips.
Serpell wrote “On Morrison” a novel-by-novel treatise.
Morrison exhilarates intellect of people who burrow into the text.
Each chapter in “On Morrison” feeds the novels through a single grand idea or two.
Namwali Serpell has been one of us waiting people.
Author realized act of sweeping reflected accumulation of the day while working as custodian at David Zwirner
Author connected painting to excavating or treating a surface instead of making an image
Produce comes into country through Hunts Point on barges