Her name becomes shorthand for a republic of women and black artists with “no home in this place” to borrow a phrase from Morrison’s Nobel lecture, people who create, reclaim and celebrate art that is intent on offering something of use back to the people whom it illuminates.
Over at NPR, Saeed Jones reviews Toni Morrison’s latest novel God Help the Child, pointing out why she will always be “American literature’s singular and singled out mother.”
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