{"product_id":"the-site-of-memory","title":"The Site of Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Site of Memory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e describes Toni Morrison’s work of literary archaeology. She offers insights into how she arrives at a text through the act of imagination bound up with memory and shows how she explores two worlds – the actual and the possible – via the nimbus of emotion surrounding the journey of an image: from picture to meaning to text.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExploring the radical possibilities of literature and the limits of history, Morrison finds a truth deeper than documentation in the silences and omissions in African American narratives of the past. Fiction, for Morrison, is a practice of ethical restoration: a means to recover what history has neglected through the ‘flooding’ of a rush of imagination. In The Site of Memory, ancestral presence, emotion and imagination converge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Booksource","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57128875819381,"sku":"21491","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/9833\/files\/Screenshot_25-6-2026_144654_www.amazon.co.uk.jpg?v=1782395225","url":"https:\/\/shop.barbican.org.uk\/products\/the-site-of-memory","provider":"Barbican Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}