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Morrison Site of Memory

TONIMORRISONTheSiteofMemory~~inInventing theTruth:TheArtandCraftofMemoir,2ded., (Boston;NewYork:HoughtonMifflin,1995),83 -102 Myinclusionina seriesoftalksonautobiographyandmemoirisn otentirelya 'sprob-ablytruethata fictionwriterthinksofhisorherworkasalien inthatcompany,whatI havetosaymaysuggestwhyI' ,Imightthrowintoreliefthedifferencesbetw eenself-rec-ollection(memoir)andfiction, (asdistinguishedfromtheoralorigins) (autobiog-raphies,recollections,memoirs) ,ofwhichwelloverahundredwerepublished, 'sTheInterestingNar-rativeoftheLifeofOla udahEquiano,orGustavusT-'lJssa,theAfrica n,WrittenbyHimself(r769)tothequietdesper ationofIncidentsintheLifeofa SlaveGirl.

ofwhich I write and inwhich my ancestors actually lived. Infidelity to thatmilieu - the absence ofthe interior life, the deliberate excising of it from the records that the slaves themselves told - is precisely the problem in the discourse thatproceeded withoutus. HowI gain access to that interior life is what drives me and is the part ofthis

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