Love is central to the work of Toni Morrison — she brought love to her examinations of Black life, and it was her enduring subject. But love isn't always a good or joyous thing in her work.
Novelist Toni Morrison, seen at the unveiling ceremony of a memorial bench marking the abolition of slavery in Paris in 2010.Novelist Toni Morrison, seen at the unveiling ceremony of a memorial bench marking the abolition of slavery in Paris in 2010.I've been thinking a lot about love lately. How the pandemic has forced us away from friends, families and significant others, forced us to make compromises in when and how we see each other.
Through Toni Morrison, I first found a love for language, not only for how it's written, but how it's spoken. Think of her opening line in the 1992 novelI remember the tiny thrill I got when I tried to say this word I'd never seen before, and realized the speaker was sucking her teeth. The onomatopoeia conjured a world of neighborhood gossip and intrigue that felt distinctly Black.
Blackness, of course, was also her subject. The love she brought to illuminating its limitless shadings and riches changed the face of American literature and has continued to inspire generations of writers.love, in the way William Faulkner wrote about the past's insistence on the present, or Cormac McCarthy writes about violence as a primordial and unifying social force.
But what sparks the narrator's observation on love comes from what her father Cholly does, Cholly who has known only abandonment and violation. And in the ultimate act of violation, Cholly rapes and impregnates Pecola, which drives her to madness.
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