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  "textContent": "\n\nNot long after Toni Morrison died in August 2019, the novelist Elias Rodriques penned an elegy in which he asked: “What will I tell young people – how will I refer to her – who do not know who she is 20, 30, or 40 years from now? We had a Shakespeare, I would like to say. People called her Toni.”\n\nThis comparison is not hyperbole or irony: as the Nobel Prize winning author of iconic books like Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Jazz, Morrison’s oeuvre has a magnitude and depth that fewhellip;\n\nread more raquo;\n\n\n\n",
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