Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison and the Power of Ambiguity

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here.Article continues after advertisement In an important 1987 essay, “The Site of Memory,” Morrison described how a double bind distorted the original slave narratives: Over and over, the writers pull the … Continue reading Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison and the Power of Ambiguity