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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastCourtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Columbia University Press, 2023) explores how an incredible group of Black women writers, including Alice Walker, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and writers and intellectuals convened an informal group called “The Sisterhood” and how they transformed American writing and cultural and educational institutions in the decades that followed. Thorsson traces the personal, professional, and political connections that led to the group’s emergence and explores the remarkable legacy. While focusing on the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women’s writing, The Sisterhood provides...2024-05-131h 00
New Books in African American StudiesCourtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Columbia University Press, 2023) explores how an incredible group of Black women writers, including Alice Walker, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and writers and intellectuals convened an informal group called “The Sisterhood” and how they transformed American writing and cultural and educational institutions in the decades that followed. Thorsson traces the personal, professional, and political connections that led to the group’s emergence and explores the remarkable legacy. While focusing on the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women’s writing, The Sisterhood provides...2024-05-131h 00
New Books in Women's HistoryCourtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Columbia University Press, 2023) explores how an incredible group of Black women writers, including Alice Walker, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and writers and intellectuals convened an informal group called “The Sisterhood” and how they transformed American writing and cultural and educational institutions in the decades that followed. Thorsson traces the personal, professional, and political connections that led to the group’s emergence and explores the remarkable legacy. While focusing on the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women’s writing, The Sisterhood provides...2024-05-131h 00
New Books in Literary StudiesCourtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Columbia University Press, 2023) explores how an incredible group of Black women writers, including Alice Walker, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and writers and intellectuals convened an informal group called “The Sisterhood” and how they transformed American writing and cultural and educational institutions in the decades that followed. Thorsson traces the personal, professional, and political connections that led to the group’s emergence and explores the remarkable legacy. While focusing on the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women’s writing, The Sisterhood provides...2024-05-131h 00
New Books in GenderCourtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Columbia University Press, 2023) explores how an incredible group of Black women writers, including Alice Walker, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and writers and intellectuals convened an informal group called “The Sisterhood” and how they transformed American writing and cultural and educational institutions in the decades that followed. Thorsson traces the personal, professional, and political connections that led to the group’s emergence and explores the remarkable legacy. While focusing on the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women’s writing, The Sisterhood provides...2024-05-131h 00
New Books in American StudiesCourtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Columbia University Press, 2023) explores how an incredible group of Black women writers, including Alice Walker, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and writers and intellectuals convened an informal group called “The Sisterhood” and how they transformed American writing and cultural and educational institutions in the decades that followed. Thorsson traces the personal, professional, and political connections that led to the group’s emergence and explores the remarkable legacy. While focusing on the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women’s writing, The Sisterhood provides...2024-05-131h 00
MakingMaking Toni MorrisonToni Morrison is widely considered one of America’s greatest writers. She published 11 novels and is the recipient of a Pulitzer, a Nobel and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Sula and Beloved are just a few of her works that are considered great American classics.Before she was a celebrated author, she was a pioneering editor at Random House, opening doors for a whole generation of Black writers, including Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton and Gayl Jones. Her editorship assembled a strong network of the most prominent Black intellectuals of...2024-03-2139 min
Making: Stories Without EndMaking Toni MorrisonToni Morrison is widely considered one of America’s greatest writers. She published 11 novels and is the recipient of a Pulitzer, a Nobel and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Sula and Beloved are just a few of her works that are considered great American classics.
Before she was a celebrated author, she was a pioneering editor at Random House, opening doors for a whole generation of Black writers, including Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton and Gayl Jones. Her editorship assembled a strong network of the most prominent Black intellectuals of the 20th ce...2024-03-2139 min
Nerdacity Podcast with DuEwa FrazierEp. 51 Courtney Thorsson Talks The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American CultureEp. 51 DuEwa interviewed author Courtney Thorsson about her new book, The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (2024). Visit Courtney's website at www.CourtneyThorsson.com.
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Bio Courtney Thorsson is an associate professor at the University of Oregon, where she teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature. Her first book Women’s Work: Nationalism and Conte...2024-03-111h 09
The Epicurean Vagabonds present Aesthetic ArrestAesthetic Arrest Podcast: Ingmar Bergman, Inger Lorre, Ousmane Sembène, The Sisterhood & Pesto Genovese!Plus Kent Monkman, Toyen, Marguerite Yourcenar & Slow-Braised Leg of Lamb in Red Wine!This Week’s Apéritif: Wildstar’s Metaxa Snowball with Rosemary GarnishReading: Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) & The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture by Courtney Thorsson Listening: Gloryland by Inger Lorre Looking: The Art of Toyen (1902-1980...2023-12-2956 min
First EditionTHE SISTERHOOD with Prof. Courtney ThorssonIn this episode, I talk to Prof. Courtney Thorsson about her new book, The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture.Over the course of two years, a group of remarkable black women writers met to discuss their work, connect with each other, and ultimately influence the next decades of American cultural life.The Sisterhood documents the meetings of the group, their motivations for gathering, and the wider intellectual and artistic world they helped create.Subscribe to First Edition via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.For episode...2023-11-1642 min
Remarkable Receptions"The Sisterhood, 1977" photograph -- episode by Courtney ThorssonA brief take on a photo titled "The Sisterhood, 1977," which has been a source of inspiration for countless readers and viewers. Episode by Courtney Thorsson. Read by Kassandra Timm. Courtney Thorsson, an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels and The Sisterhood: Black Women's Literary Organizing, an interpretive cultural history of The Sisterhood forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Courtney is grateful to poet and scholar Harryette Mullen for her work to correctly identify the women in the phot...2022-08-0404 minRemarkable ReceptionsToni Morrison's Beloved -- episode by Courtney ThorssonThe story of how Black writers and intellectuals made sure that Toni Morrison's novel would be acknowledged for decades. Episode written by Courtney ThorssonThe script was read by Kassandra Timm.2022-06-2915 min