Recitatif by Toni Morrison

Author:Toni Morrison [Morrison, Toni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2022-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

*5 At this point—true to type!—I was pretty certain Twyla was black. I could hear potential class solidarity in these lines: “I thought it was a good thing until I heard it was a bad thing. I mean I didn’t know. All the schools seemed dumps to me.” And this, I thought, is precisely what Roberta rejects, in favor of retaining the high position in the social hierarchy that both her race and now her money provide. But if Twyla’s black, could she possibly forget that Maggie was, too? Back to square one. Or back to square one AND square zero, that paradoxical, shimmering field beyond the binary. Can we imagine any of our struggles for justice being made from this place?

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