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Article: Marc C. Conner, ed. The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable.(Book Review)
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- International Fiction Review
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- January 1, 2003
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Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Pp. 153. $18.00
In an interview with Bessie Jones and Audrey Vinson, Toni Morrison once declared that "the novel has to be socially responsible as well as very beautiful" (Conversations with Toni Morrison, ed. Danielle Taylor-Guthrie [Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994] 183). The very dualism emerging out of this pronouncement--the ideological implied in the social responsibility of the author, and the aesthetic evident in his or her search for beauty--has been present not only in Morrison's career as a writer, but also in the long tradition of African-American letters. The tension between the political ...