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Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon A Blues Song
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For Thos Enteres Ted in Toni Morrison and her work, a valuable side effect of her recent critical and popular success is the rush of interviewers to query her about her interests, themes, and purpose in writing fiction. One of the most valuable interviews is by Thomas LeClair in the New Republic for March 21, 1981. When LeClair asked Morrison how she conceived of her function as a writer, she replied by describing how her writing belongs to the continuing traditions of black communal life: I write what I have recently begun to call village literature, fiction that is really for the village, for the tribe. Peasant literature for my people, which is necessary and legitimate but which also allows me to get in touch with all sorts of people. I think long and carefully about what my novels ought to do. They should clarify roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment.
Title: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon A Blues Song
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Abstract
For Thos Enteres Ted in Toni Morrison and her work, a valuable side effect of her recent critical and popular success is the rush of interviewers to query her about her interests, themes, and purpose in writing fiction.
One of the most valuable interviews is by Thomas LeClair in the New Republic for March 21, 1981.
When LeClair asked Morrison how she conceived of her function as a writer, she replied by describing how her writing belongs to the continuing traditions of black communal life: I write what I have recently begun to call village literature, fiction that is really for the village, for the tribe.
Peasant literature for my people, which is necessary and legitimate but which also allows me to get in touch with all sorts of people.
I think long and carefully about what my novels ought to do.
They should clarify roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment.
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