{"title":"Toni Morrison","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"beloved","title":"Beloved","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50516441465163,"sku":"1120398","price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0d8c30fd-e4a6-4463-8e02-d8d27ed90afd_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727941889"},{"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\/de\/collections\/toni-morrison.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}