Toni Morrison in Podcasts
personAmerican novelist and Nobel laureate known for works exploring African-American culture and history.
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So when I was thinking about why I feel so drawn to Morrison in terms of the way she talks about racial politics, I was struck by the fact that we have very, very different upbringings.
And you note that you and Morrison share something, what you call the strange privilege of zooming out from or boomeranging around race.
We've been talking about her new book On Morrison and about what Toni Morrison was actually doing on the page that the critical conversation about her work has largely missed.
I feel compelled to go back to this, that Morrison feels compelled to go back to this.
And I found that very eerie because I had not read that interview with Morrison about Dreaming Emmett.
And when you look at the drafts of Dreaming Emmett, which you can now do in Morrison's archives at Princeton, what you find is this movement toward greater and greater distortion of the history.
It's so interesting because that specific historical incident, the killing of Emmett Till, also became the basis for Morrison's play, Dreaming Emmett.
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