Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon Faced with unsustainable demands in

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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon Faced with unsustainable demands inNobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious. In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America's most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that built the nation to the Black characters that many of