Toni Morrison and the Question of Freedom

What does it really mean to be free??"and how do we learn to imagine it?

Join Ato Quayson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and English at Stanford University, for a thought-provoking exploration of freedom through the novels of Toni Morrison.

Drawing on Beloved, Song of Solomon, and A Mercy, this lecture examines how Morrison’s characters wrestle with freedom in the aftermath of enslavement??"not just as a legal status, but as something lived in the body and sustained by imagination.

Together, these stories offer a powerful, full-spectrum vision of freedom??"one that speaks not only to Black history, but to how all of us might learn to live more fully and humanely.

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