The Site of Memory - Couverture souple

Morrison, Toni

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1068591897 ISBN 13 : 9781068591891

Editeur : Silver Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Site of Memory describes Toni Morrison’s work of literary archaeology. She offers insights into how she arrives at a text through the act of imagination bound up with memory and shows how she explores two worlds – the actual and the possible – via the nimbus of emotion surrounding the journey of an image: from picture to meaning to text.

Exploring the radical possibilities of literature and the limits of history, Morrison finds a truth deeper than documentation in the silences and omissions in African American narratives of the past. Fiction, for Morrison, is a practice of ethical restoration: a means to recover what history has neglected through the ‘flooding’ of a rush of imagination. In The Site of Memory, ancestral presence, emotion and imagination converge.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Silver Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1068591897
• ISBN 13: 9781068591891
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
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