{"product_id":"the-site-of-memory-9781068591891","title":"The Site of Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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 The Site of Memory, ancestral presence, emotion and imagination converge.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781068591891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Silver Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 16(H)x11.1(L)x0.3(W)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eToni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including \u003cem\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSula\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eParadise\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLove\u003c\/em\u003e. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Toni Morrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48745890971865,"sku":"9781068591891","price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/617KdvpactL._SL1500_69fbeda0-593f-4f40-a7cc-90407b6fa08b.jpg?v=1779869424","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-site-of-memory-9781068591891","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}