{"product_id":"morrison-toni-the-site-opb","title":"Morrison, Toni: The Site of Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilver Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 25, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Site of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edescribes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Site of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, ancestral presence, emotion and imagination converge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118183833623,"sku":"9781068591891","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/617KdvpactL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778886475","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/morrison-toni-the-site-opb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}