The Site of Memory
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 and memory. Showing how she explores two worlds, the actual and the possible, she follows the journey of an image from picture to meaning to text via the nimbus of emotion surrounding it. Through radical exploration, 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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