Toni Morrison
For most of this century, the black experience of America has been defined and written about by men. Since the 1970s, though, the novelist
Toni Morrison has stood alongside Alice Walker as a major influence in the reshaping of the landscape of American literary life. Her most recent novel, Beloved, was judged a major literary event. In conversation with Christopher Bigsby ,
Toni Morrison discusses her work and the nature of being a black woman writer in America.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT