Episode 6- Twyla and Roberta’s Recitatif, Toni Morrison’s Short Story Enigma

On this episode of Stories of -Esses, Gaby and Daniel talk about Toni Morrison's one and only short story, Recitatif. They dive into the complexities of friendship and they great experiment by one of America's greatest writers. This episodes touches on Toni Morrisson's view of how friendships go beyond the boundaries of race and societal expectations and makes sure the reader faces their own biases and expectations for the characters and the author herself.

This week’s resources are:

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/toni-morrison-recitatif-short-story-zadie-smith#:~:text=In the extraordinary “Recitatif%2C”,the subject of her experiment.&text=In 1980 Toni Morrison,a piece with her œuvre

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/507678/pdf

Morris, Susana M. “‘Sisters Separated for Much Too Long’: Women’s Friendship and Power in Toni Morrison’s ‘Recitatif.’” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 32, no. 1, 2013, pp. 159–80. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43653369. Accessed 18 Nov. 2023.

Reames, K.L. (2007). “A Girl from a Whole Other Race”: Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif,” Beloved, and Paradise . In: Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing. American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603356_7

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/books/toni-morrison-dead.html

Recitatif by Toni Morrison FULL STORY HERE: https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/1073/Morrison_recitatifessay.doc.pdf

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