Morrison Memory

Category: Re/Memory

  • Re/Memory

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    by

    Lily Hebda
    in

    “I used to think to think it was my rememory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it’s not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place–the picture of it–stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world. What…

  • Re/Memory Introduction

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    by

    Ryleigh (Editor)
    in

    Welcome to Morrison’s Re/Memory: A Material Recollection of a Collective Mental Landscape, a Griot Institute project at Bucknell University. Toni Morrison’s concept of rememory, first introduced in her novel Beloved, captures the influence of the past, both physical and in feeling, on the present. Morrison interacts with and utilizes the past in her writing to…