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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

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Toni Morrison


University Press of Mississippi
HB 9781604730173
$30.00

April 2008

"For Nobel Laureate Morrison, language is holy, story is power, and inspiration is found ’at the margin,’ that is, in lives locked out of America’s white, corporate mainstream, in art of conscience, in overlooked beauty and hidden truths. Editor Denard incisively introduces this well-structured collection of clarion works spanning three decades and exemplifying Morrison’s exacting arguments, commanding forthrightness, and blistering wit on subjects personal and universal, timely and timeless. . . . A master stylist, penetrating thinker, and committed artist wholly engaged in transforming lives, Morrison believes that a novel ’should be beautiful, and powerful, but it should also work. It should have something in it that enlightens.’ Morrison holds to the same high standards in her revelatory nonfiction." –Booklist

"Although Morrison’s powerful novels on race and identity have secured her literary reputation, the commanding voice of her essays, speeches and reviews offers compelling insights into family, history, other writers and politics. The pieces span from 1971, when Morrison was an editor at Random House, to 2002, the year she won the Nobel Price. . . . Denard’s judicious selections offer eloquent insights into the themes that are the rich ground for Morrison’s haunting fiction." –Publishers Weekly

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