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Article: At Home with Toni Morrison.(Toni Morrison Society conference)(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
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- October 26, 2000
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Toni Morrison Society Event Draws Scholars from Around the World to Honor the Literary Legend
Approximately 130 scholars from around the globe gathered for three days in Lorain, Ohio, last month for one purpose: to honor and celebrate Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison and her work.
The second biennial Toni Morrison Society conference, Toni Morrison and The Meanings of Home, was held in this steel town on the banks of Lake Erie, which is Morrison's birthplace and the setting of Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye.
"Every time the Toni Morrison Society comes together it is a homecoming," says Dr. Marilyn Mobley McKenzie, president of the society ...