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January 11, 1978 · Literature & Publishing

A Novel Carried Black Memory Into the Center

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon received the National Book Critics Circle Award and helped establish a new measure of American literary greatness.

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Then

Black life was often treated as a subject at the margins of the American literary canon.

Now

Morrison’s fiction is central to how readers understand memory, ancestry, language, and freedom.

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