Word: everywoman
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...danger of passing from civilized memory. The best imaginative writing is composed of specifics rather than platitudes or generalities; it seeks not to transcend its own innate characteristics but to break through the limitations and prejudices of those lucky or wise enough to read it. Madame Bovary is not Everywoman; she is a living complex of new knowledge and experience in the lives of all who have met her. Sethe, the tormented former slave in Beloved, is not Everywoman either; she is Toni Morrison's gift to those who desperately need to know...