Language as liberation reflections on the American canon

"Toni Morrison's lectures on the American canon, illuminating the relationship between race, the arts, and life beyond the page. From Herman Melville's Moby Dick to Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to the works of Faulkner and Hemmingway, Mor...

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Main Author: Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019 (Author)
Other Authors: Morrison, Ford (Writer of supplementary textual content), Brodsky, Claudia, 1955- (Writer of introduction)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2026.
Edition:First hardcover edition.
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505 0 |a On Toni Morrison's teaching and lectures / Ford Morrison -- Course description for "Studies in American Africanism"- Toni Morrison -- Introduction: History and literature : the metaphysics of race in America / Claudia Brodsky -- Images of Blacks in western art -- The surrogate self as enabler -- Edgar Allen Poe/Herman Melville -- Ernest Hemingway/Willa Cather -- Flannery O'Connor/Carson McCullers -- Carson McCullers -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Mark Twain -- Gertrude Stein -- William Styron -- William Faulkner -- Saul Bellow. 
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