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In her novels, she located the missing story of Black America. By Judith Shulevitz PHOTOGRAPH BY JILL KREMENTZ “I don’t like erasures,” the novelist Toni Morrison told a Princeton audience in 2017. She had been asked what she thought about Confederate statues, then being torn down throughout the South. Leave them up, she said: “Talk about the offense. You know, put another statue next to it and say the opposite.” Hang a noose around its neck, she added. The audience laughed nervously, but she wasn’t kidding. The moderator quickly moved on to another question, so Morrison kept the rest of her views to herself. …
摘自《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic)第337卷 第3期 · 2026年3月3日,Judith Shulevitz。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。