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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon Traveler & Explorer Biographies but was once a WWINobel 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