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Language As Liberation: Reflections On The American Canon
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Nobel Laureate And Pulitzer PrizeWinning Author Of Beloved Toni Morrison Investigates Black Characters In The American Literary Canon And The Way They Shaped The NationS Collective Unconscious.In A Dazzling Series Of Lectures From Her Tenure As A Professor At Princeton University, Toni Morrison Interrogates AmericaS Most Famous Works And Authors, Drawing A Direct Line From The Black Bodies That Built The Nation To The Black Characters That Many Of The CountryS Canonical White Writers Imagined In Their Work. Morrison Sees These Fictions As A Form Of Creation And Projection, Arguing That They Helped Manufacture American Racial IdentityThese Africanist Presences Are The Shadow That Makes Light Possible, As Morrison Writes, And The Reflections Of Their Authors Own Deepest Fears, Insecurities, And Longings.With Profound Erudition And Wit, Morrison Breaks Wide Open The American Conception Of Race With Energetic, Enlivening Readings Of The NationS Canon, Revealing That Our Liberation From These Diminishing Notions Comes Through Language. How, Morrison Wonders, Could One Speak Of Profit, Of Economy, Of Labor, Or Progress, Of Suffragism, Or Christianity, Of The Frontier, Of The Formation Of New States, The Acquisition Of New Lands . . . Of Practically Anything A New Nation Concerns Itself WithWithout Having As A Referent, At The Heart Of The Discourse Or Defining Its Edges, The Presence Of Africans And/Or Their Descendants?To Read These Lectures, Collected Here For The First Time, Is To Encounter Morrison, Not Just The Writer But Also The Teacher, In The Most Penetrating And Subversive Way Yet. With A Foreword By Her Son Ford Morrison And An Introduction By Her Princeton Comparative Literature Colleague Claudia Brodsky, Language As Liberation Is A Revelatory Collection That Promises To Redefine The American Canon.
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