
Site of Memory
by Toni Morrison
Title:
Site of Memory
Author:
Toni Morrison
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
32 pages
Publisher:
Silver Press
ISBN-13:
9781068591891
EAN:
9781068591891
Publication Date:
13/11/2025
Classifications:
Biography and non-fiction prose
Weight (g):
154
Dimensions (mm):
159 x 111 x 7
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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, which is bound up with 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.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.




















