An Era of Responsibility: the Common Sense of Toni Morrison's Fictional and Non-fictional Legacy
An Era of Responsibility: the Common Sense of Toni Morrison's Fictional and Non-fictional Legacy

Summary/Abstract: Toni Morrison, one of the most important American writers of the 20th century, died in August 2019 at the age of 88. This paper presents the legacy of Toni Morrison’s fiction and non-fiction in an attempt to see how her literary and non-literary texts communicate with the contemporary American society. Focusing on the process of creating a particular belief instead of just giving its static description, Morrison’s prose has shown how this belief may influence the entire community’s attitude towards a person or an event. The responsibility to establish the relation between “those with the notion of superiority” and “the defenseless” therefore rests upon the necessity, much emphasized in Morrison’s works, to differentiate facts from truth.

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