Toni Morrison, Prophet of America’s Demons (1931-2019)
…ation.” With an uncanny prophetic voice, Morrison said to that assembly in Stockholm a quarter century ago that such language was “crafted to lock creative people into cages.” Tongue-suicide was to be contrasted with language’s other side, that of “Word-work.” Such is the literature which is “sublime… because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—that way in which we are like no other life. We die. Th…
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