Since early 2015, I’ve been writing a regular article that focuses on art for a local, South Asian-focused magazine called "Canada Tabloid." This article, called “She Doesn't Speak For us” is about women writers who challenge the status quo. It starts off talking about the great African-American Nobel prize-winning author, Toni Morrison.
I hope you enjoy it.
“For [Morrison], the claim that art is somehow divorced from the political arena—what she has called “the art/politics fake debate” (“Preface” ix)—is absurd; like Ellison, she is committed to an art that is both aesthetically powerful and politically effective: “For me,” she states, “a novel has to be socially responsible as well as beautiful.” (Jones and Vinson 183).
The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable