"Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created." In Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize lecture she reflected on the power of language, the necessity of remembrance, and the radical act of telling our own stories. The 1993 literature prize was awarded to Morrison, “who in novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”. Read or listen to the full lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morriso
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"Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created." In Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize lecture she reflected on the power of language, the necessity of remembrance, and the radical act of telling our own stories. The 1993 literature prize was awarded to Morrison, “who in novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”. Read or listen to the full lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morriso
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