{"id":1933,"date":"2021-10-19T15:27:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:27:24","slug":"troy-university-english-forum-focuses-on-the-work-of-toni-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/10\/19\/troy-university-english-forum-focuses-on-the-work-of-toni-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University English Forum focuses on the work of Toni Morrison."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The work of author Toni Morrison, who wrote many novels about the topics of slavery and progressive change, was the focus of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-communication-fine-arts\/departments\/english\/\">Troy University English Department&#8217;s<\/a> most recent forum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was very curious to sort of delve into what might happen to Toni Morrison in the future,&#8221; says English Professor Kirk Curnutt. &#8220;Because in the short period since she&#8217;s died there&#8217;s really sort of, I think, a lot of open questions about how her legacy will be curated.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversations about race can be a difficult topic to discuss but Curnutt instead focuses on the creative side of Morrison&#8217;s work and how it can keep an author&#8217;s legacy alive in future years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s very important that for our own sense of creativity that we recognize that we can take the tools that we learn in a college classroom and really apply them to anything that we read out in the world or anything we see quite honestly,&#8221; says Curnutt. &#8220;But I also hope it&#8217;ll get people thinking about about race and about the need to have an open and honest conversation in which those of us who sort of assume we&#8217;re the mainstream learn to listen more to the artists whose culture create helped create that mainstream.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Talor&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work of author Toni Morrison, who wrote many novels about the topics of slavery and progressive change, was the focus of the Troy University English Department&#8217;s most recent forum. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very curious to sort of delve into what might happen to Toni Morrison in the future,&#8221; says English Professor Kirk Curnutt. &#8220;Because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/10\/19\/troy-university-english-forum-focuses-on-the-work-of-toni-morrison\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[383,728,727,484,729],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english-deparment","tag-english-forum","tag-kirk-curnutt","tag-talor-waymon","tag-toni-morrison"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}