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Recitatif

Recitatif

Short story by Toni Morrison
4.3/5 · Goodreads
"Recitatif" is Toni Morrison's first published short story. It was initially published in 1983 in Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women, an anthology edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka, and is the only short story written by... Wikipedia
Originally published: 1983
Genre(s): Short story, fiction
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"Recitatif" is a story in racial writing, as the race of Twyla and Roberta are debatable. ... Though the characters are clearly separated by class, neither is ...
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A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the relationships that shape us through life, with an ...
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A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone Knopf hardcover ...
Jan 28, 2022 · Recitatif,” originally published in 1983 and now available in book form, features a Black girl and a white girl, but Morrison never ...
The story begins when Twyla and Roberta, two eight-year-old girls, are introduced to each other as roommates at a children's shelter called St.
In “Recitatif” Morrison uses Maggie to represent the issues of discrimination and victimization while keeping the ethnicities of any characters discreet so ...
Jan 23, 2022 · With “Recitatif” she was explicit. This extraordinary story was specifically intended as “an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from ...
Feb 17, 2022 · The subject of the experiment is the reader.” The story is an extended attempt to write about race by, in the most fundamental sense, writing ...