Spanning four decades these essays speeches and meditation interrogate the world us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation.The sweep of American history and the current state of politics. The duty of the press and the role of the artist. Throughout Mouth Full Of Blood our search for truth and moral integrity is met by Toni Morrison with controlled anger, elegance and literary excellence.
The collection is structured in three parts and these are heart stopping introduce by a player for dead of 9 / 11 a meditation on Martin Luther king Jr and a eulogy for James Baldwin.Morrison Nobel lecture on the power of language,is accompanied by lecture of American.She speak to graduating students and at both the Louvre and American Black Holocaus Museum.She revisits The Bluest Eye Suka and Beloved; reassessing the novels that have become touchstone for generations of readers.
Mouth Full Of Blood is a powerful , erudite and essential gathering of ideas that speaks to us all.