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The Site of Memory
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ISBN10: 1068591897
ISBN13: 9781068591891
Publisher: Silver Press
Published: Jan 25 2026
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.08
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.35 Depth: 6.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781068591891
Publisher: Silver Press
Published: Jan 25 2026
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.08
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.35 Depth: 6.27
Language: English
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.
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.
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