ENGL 470 (WI): Toni
Morrison
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Language can never live up to life, once and for all. Nor should it. Language can never pin down slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be
able to do so. Its force--its
felicity--is in its reach toward the ineffable. [...] Unmolested language surges toward knowledge, not its
destruction. [...] Word work is
sublime, because it is generative. It
makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference, the way in
which we are like no other life.
We
die. That may be the meaning of
life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our
lives.
Once upon a time ...
Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture
Photo
credit: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Instructor: Moira P. Baker Office: 406 young hall Phone: 831-5352 (O) 731-4104 (H) email: mpbaker@radford.edu |
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