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A scholar of literature sees striking parallels between contemporary book bans in the US and those that took place in South Africa during apartheid.
A free speech expert defines censorship and applies that lesson to current political struggles in the US to ban books from public schools and libraries.
As we get older, our eyesight may dim and our recall may falter. But our linguistic abilities don’t seem to erode.
In some ways, perhaps Morrison is even more relevant in South African universities today than she’s ever been.
With her writing, and her work as a publisher, Morrison brought the African-American experience to the fore in the US and around the world.
In her creative and critical work, Toni Morrison sought to remap the contours of American literature and culture.
Here is a small list of pivotal texts by African American women from the past century.
It is a tall order to try to become wise. And the bad news is that it appears harder than many philosophers have thought.
Bob Dylan is now a literary celebrity. And next week, the Booker Prize judges will anoint another. The tag is still chiefly attached to men but women authors shouldn’t despair: fame and good writing can be uneasy bedfellows.
Tony Morrison’s Desdemona, which opens today in Melbourne, asks many questions of its audience. Perhaps most pressingly: what does it really mean to listen, rather than hear?
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Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Feminisms and Gender-Based Violence, University of Manitoba
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Teaching and Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
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Professor of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Roger J. Kreuz is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Dean and Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Memphis
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney