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 Faulk...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2026].
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Canon (Literature) LITERARY CRITICISM / American. LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century. LITERARY CRITICISM / African American & Black.

Table of Contents:

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.