Language as Liberation

Collected in one astonishing volume, Toni Morrison’s explorations of the American literary canon Perhaps no novelist has meant more to contemporary fiction than Toni Morrison. And in addition to being a Nobel Prize–winning novelist, Morrison spent seventeen years as the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, teaching courses in African American studies, creative writing, and American literature. Now, for the first time ever, Morrison’s lectures on the American cano