PRINCIPLE, NJ –
The month-long Toni Morrison tribute at Princeton University, where the Nobel laureate has taught for 17 years, will include music written and performed by Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant, for to a three-day series of spring lectures and seminars with author Edwidge Danticat, among others. .
The tribute will focus on “Toni Morrison: Places of Memory,” an exhibition pulled from her archives that will explore her creative process through manuscripts, letters, and letters. between her and other black women, pictures, maps she drew while writing her famous novel “Beloved,” rare drafts of the novel “Song of Solomon” ” and many other unfinished projects. The exhibition takes place at the Princeton University Library from February 22 to June 4.
“In imagining this initiative — from exhibitions to symposiums to partner projects — I wanted to show how important the archive is to understanding Morrison’s work and practices. But I would also like to point out how this archive in particular is a site that opens up new opportunities. lines of inquiry and inspire new types of collaborations,” said curator Autumn Womack, assistant. Associate Professor of African American and British Studies at Princeton, said in a statement released Wednesday.
Morrison, who died in 2019 at the age of 88, was also known for novels such as “Sula,” “The Bluest Eye,” and “Jazz.” She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
