{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Novels of Toni Morrison and Language as Liberation: Kevin Young, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Sasha Bon\u00e9t, and Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers","description":"Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison helped Americans of all races see themselves with radical clarity in modern classics like Sula and Beloved. Her lectures on American literature and racial imagination, now available for the first time, have never been more necessary. Join The New Yorker\u2019s poetry editor Kevin Young, novelist Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers, writer Sasha Bon\u00e9t, and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts for a conversation that breaks open the taboos about race in American literature \u2014 and a celebration of her new collection, Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon. Drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that built the nation to the Black characters that many of the country\u2019s canonical white writers imagined in their work, Morrison\u2019s lectures are an antidote to fear and intellectual repression at a time when discussion about race in American literature has become fraught and muted \u2014 revealing that liberation is possible through language. In a celebration of the book\u2019s launch \u2014 and the reissue of her classic oeuvre \u2014 don\u2019t miss this group of distinguished novelists, poets, and scholars as they step inside the classroom with Morrison to revel in her singular brilliance \u2014 cracking the code of America\u2019s deepest fears, longings, and hopes for collective liberation. ","author_name":"92NY Talks","author_url":"https:\/\/www.92ny.org\/archives\/featured-series\/talks-podcast","html":"