What moves at the margin: - selected nonfiction

Toni Morrison

University Press of Mississippi

2008

215 páginas

7h 10m

ISBN-13: 9781604730173

"Be it grand or slender, burrowing, blasting or refusing to sanctiify; whether it laughs out loud or is a cry without an alphabet, the choice word, the chosen silence, unmolested language surges toward knowledge, not its destruction. But who does not know of literature banned because it is interrogative; discredited because it is critial; erased because alternate? And how many are outraged by the thought of a self-ravaged tongue?

Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference -- the way in which we are like no other life."
Toni Morrison, from the Nobel Lecture