From WSJbooks: 'There is simply no escaping Morrison’s legacy,' writes Sam_Sacks. 'She wrote, in her own words, 'village literature'—and remade the field of fiction.'
Toni Morrison liked to note, when importunate interviewers wondered when she was going to write about something other than the African-American experience, that Tolstoy didn’t intend his books to be read by black girls from Ohio. Her point was that notion of universalism is fraudulent.
To be a writer of any worth one must be a regionalist. Tolstoy’s subject and audience was the 19th-century Russian gentry, and the truths he mined from that niche have ensured “Anna Karenina” a place in every small-town library in the world. Morrison’s focus was on black Americans, from their place in the founding colonies to the present...
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