Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American CanonNobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning 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