I get from Morrison's speech the idea of a writer who disturbs and shocks the established patterns, but not because she or he wants to make that just for fad but because it is a deep feeling which moves the deepest threads of her/his soul. A feeling which claims for revolution but not the people’s revolution with violence and with the goal of change a social system, the revolution those writers want is firstly their own revolution, in their own lives and after, and only if it is possible because this isn't their main objective, to help in some way to build and to feed the own revolution in every reader that they might have. That single revolution gets along with one of the last ideas Morrison mentioned, that idea about the choice of stillness but stillness that becomes art, art for constructing meanings and for sharing with the others, those who want to begin with their change.
Now, if I think that the author of the book that I am reading fulfills those ideas of a writer, of course, not because is Morrison herself (I am reading beloved) but because in this book there are many examples of shocking the false peace of a world which did not want to recognize the abuses and the pain produced by slavery. I do not know what examples I can mention for showing that I have read the book but maybe I could say that the most shocking was not that a mother killed her own daughter, or the abuses applied on the slaves; the most shocking event was the love that Denver had for Beloved. She thought her mother had a debt with that girl, and at the same time, she had that debt too. For that reason Denver loved Beloved in that strong way. So I feel myself identified with Denver, in some way I have always thought that my mother has a debt with my oldest brother; therefore my love for him is bigger than the love for my other brothers.
I can feel you in these words. I really feel you in these words.
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