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Language as liberation : reflections on the American canon / Toni Morrison ; introduction and notes by Claudia Brodsky.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019 (author.). Brodsky, Claudia, 1955- (writer of introduction.).

Summary:

"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, Morrison interrogates major works of American literature as only she can. With an introduction from Morrison's colleague, Claudia Brodsky, Language as Liberation is a revelatory book that once again displays Morrison's intellectual and literary greatness." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593802748
  • ISBN: 0593802748
  • Physical Description: xxviii, 207 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Borzoi Book" -- Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
On Toni Morrison's teaching and lectures -- Course desciption for "studies in American Africanism"-Toni Morrison -- Introduction: history and literature-the metaphysics of race in America -- 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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Subject:
American literature > History and criticism.
Canon (Literature)
Genre:
Literary criticism.
Lectures.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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