The Washington Post, June 13th, 1993
"THIS IS NOT a story to pass on," declares Toni Morrison with bitter irony in her celebrated work Beloved, a novel that exposes the destructiveness of an untold past. Morrison is not alone in her determination to preserve and tell the past. Many American writers share her concern that the told story, with its history, humor, drama, geography and moral interrogations, is in jeopardy. After all, who tells stories any more? Do the children know the great traditional stories of our cultural pasts? Storytelling used to be the acknowledged territory of the elders - the grandparents, the ones who ha...
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