Toni Morrison's Short Story 'Recitatif'

Toni Morrison's Short Story 'Recitatif'

Introduction

Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She has done so with impressive results is attested to by her popularity with white and black readers alike, her place on university syllabi across the country, and her literary awards (Goulimari, 2011). It is important to know that Morrison's relationship with literature developed at the age of twelve when she began to read Nabokov and Jane Austen. Morrison's stories are always a contemporary echo, evoking the internal difficulties in the ethics of the black community, also racism and ...