{"id":5539,"date":"2022-02-22T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=5539"},"modified":"2022-02-22T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:32:14","slug":"recitatif","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/recitatif\/","title":{"rendered":"Recitatif"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Toni Morrison, MA \u201955<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The late novelist and essayist\u2019s only short story\u2014which she wrote in 1983\u2014has just recently been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/34842610-recitatif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stand-alone book form<\/a>. The plot concerns an interracial friendship between two 8-year-old girls who meet in a New York State shelter\u2014though, by the author\u2019s design, it\u2019s never clear which is Black and which is white. The volume opens with an extensive analysis by novelist and academic Zadie Smith, but <em>Kirkus <\/em>advises that readers \u201cskip over the 50-page introduction and read the 50-page story first.\u201d Says the review: \u201cJust as students read the text before they hear the lecture, Smith&#8217;s exegesis is much more meaningful if you know the story. If you read the intro first, you forfeit the ability to apprehend the story on your own, more critical than usual here since the issue goes beyond spoilers. According to Morrison herself, this story is \u2018an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/books\/\">More books by Cornellian authors<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late novelist and essayist Toni Morrison, MA \u201955, wrote just one short story, in 1983. 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