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In Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, she begins a story in the most familiar language: "Once upon a time there was an old woman." But Morrison announces the form of the fable and the role of the "old woman" only to question the role of story telling itself. "Or was it an old man?" she then asks, reminding us that all knowledge is situated, all wisdom partial. After these reminders, she settles into her "version" of the story. We will read Morrison in all her complexity, moving through seven novels, various nonfiction, one short story, several interviews, and a children's story.
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