{"product_id":"the-site-of-memory-toni-morrison","title":"The Site of Memory - Toni Morrison","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Site of Memory\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Site of Memory\u003c\/em\u003e, ancestral presence, emotion and imagination converge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpiral House, 2025\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, 32pp \u003cbr\u003e203 x 127mm \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56370386469241,"sku":null,"price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks_16d29351-4ddd-40cc-9372-cac86131690b.jpg?v=1765996054","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.live\/products\/the-site-of-memory-toni-morrison","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}