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21 de abr. de 2015 · Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of lo...
14 de ene. de 2023 · The Critical History of A Mercy, Home, and God Help the Child as [Not] Told by Toni Morrison. If the forewords/afterword to all the Penguin editions of her novels except A Mercy, Home, and God Help the Child represent Morrison’s elusive rendition of an autobiography, they also function as the author’s subtle attempt to control her literary critical reception history, compelling readers in ...
In the opening paragraph of God Help the Child, Toni Morrison gives voice to Sweetness, a woman describing herself as "light-skinned with good hair, what we call high yellow," who gives birth to a child with very dark skin. She says, "It didn't take no more than an hour after they pulled her out from between my legs to realize something was wrong.
21 de abr. de 2015 · Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness ...
Life, as shown to us in God Help the Child, is hard and often painful, even if there is hope that circumstances can and do get better. Inhabiting her characters' lives and voices, in a story told from multiple perspectives, Morrison examines the beauty and ugliness in all our lives, in a memorable story, skillfully told. This review was ...
20 de abr. de 2015 · In God Help the Child, the protagonist, Lula Ann, is born to a lighter-skinned mother and father who have enjoyed the relative privilege their skin colour affords them in America.
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