Book description
Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together
thirteenessays, all written especially for this book, by distinguished
academics - black and white, male and female - on one of the grimmest
and most revealing moments of American history: the O J Simpson case.
Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She now divides her time
between Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. She is
Robert F. Goheen Professor, Council of Humanities, Princeton
University. She is the author of six novels: The Bluest Eye, Sula,
Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction,
and Jazz. Her most recent book is Playing in the Dark: Whiteness
and the Literary Imagination. In 1993 she won the Nobel Prize
for Literature.
Claudia Brodsky Lacour is Professor of Comparative Literature at
Princeton University and Directeur de Programme at the College
International de Philosophie, Paris. She is the author of The
Imposition of Form: Studies in Narrative Representation and
Knowledge and Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and
the Origin of Modern Philosophy, and a contributor to
Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill,
Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social
Reality, edited by Toni Morrison.
