{"title":"Spiral House","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-site-of-memory","title":"The Site of Memory","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\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\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Site of Memory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Site of Memory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, ancestral presence, emotion and imagination converge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spiral House","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53622899114315,"sku":"R2172-4056","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Morrisoncover_720x_0ef47fe5-1438-4498-b82a-4ecdf2d65c6e.webp?v=1760622617"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/spiral-house.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}