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THE AUTHOR ALSO BY TONI MORRISON ACCLAIM FOR TONI MORRISON’S SULA COPYRIGHT It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. This book is for Ford and Slade, whomI miss although they have not left me. “Nobody knew my rose of the world but me…. I had too much glory. They don’t want glory like thatin nobody’s heart.” —The Rose Tattoo FOREWORD In the fifties, when I was a student, the embarrassment of being called a politically minded writer was so acute, the fear of critical derision for channeling one’s creativity toward the state of social affairs so profound, it made me wonder: Why the panic? The flight from any accusation of revealing an awareness of the political world in one’s fiction turned my attention to the source of the panic and the means by which writers sought to ease it. What could be so bad about being socially astute, politically aware in literature? Conventional wisdom agrees that political fiction is not art; that such work is less likely to have aesthetic value because politics—
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