![]() ![]() If they are true, her view of a culture in which its members, for whatever reasons, cannot depend for safety and solace on even the simplest form of social cooperation is almost too harrowing to imagine. Yet if her tales are merely symbolic, the reader can complain of their sensationalism. In this way, the writer can imply that hers are not descriptions of reality but only symbols of a psychological condition. ![]() Morrison’s effect is that of a folktale in which conventional narrative qualities like unity and suspense are sacrificed to the cumulative effects of individual, highly romantic or mythic episodes, whose individual implausibility, by forcing the reader to abandon the criteria of plausibility, cease to matter. ![]() A life in literary criticism: how Review writers read and responded to the novels of Toni Morrison (1931–2019).ĭiane Johnson, “The Oppressor in the Next Room,” Novem( Song of Solomon) ![]()
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