{"product_id":"language-as-liberation-toni-morrison-9780593802748","title":"Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon","description":"\u003cb\u003eCollected in one astonishing volume, Toni Morrison's explorations of Blackness and the American literary canon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps no novelist has meant more to contemporary fiction than Toni Morrison. And in addition to being a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Morrison spent 17 years as the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, teaching courses in African American studies, creative writing, and American literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, for the first time ever, Morrison's lectures on the American canon are compiled together, granting readers unprecedented access to Morrison's scholarship, critical eye, and relentless brilliance. Researching several of America's most famous works and authors, Morrison illuminates the relationship between race, the arts, and life beyond the page. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Herman Melville's \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick \u003c\/i\u003eto Carson McCullers's \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, \u003c\/i\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe's \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin \u003c\/i\u003eto 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, \u003ci\u003eLanguage as Liberation \u003c\/i\u003eis a revelatory book that once again displays Morrison's intellectual and literary greatness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Toni Morrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593802748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593802748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Toni Morrison","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47039761023231,"sku":"9780593802748","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7a46e5e-8b08-4324-8bb0-5513abebf431.jpg?v=1752752484","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/language-as-liberation-toni-morrison-9780593802748","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}