"The symposium gives us a chance to reflect on a topic that was the subject of Toni Morrison's first A. D. White Professor-at-Large lecture in 1988: literature and public life,"
"Literature allows us - no, demands of us - the experience of ourselves as multidimensional persons. And doing so is far more necessary than it has ever been ... . As a simultaneous apprehension of human character in time, in context, in space, in metaphorical and expressive language, it organizes the disorienting influence of an excess of realities: heightened, virtual, mega, hyper, cyber, contingent, porous and nostalgic. Finally, it can project an alleviated future."
"an opportunity to reflect - through diverse disciplines and media - on the prescient validity of those ideas in our own time."
It has been 70 years since Toni Morrison earned a master of arts degree at Cornell in 1955 with a thesis on Virginia Woolf's and William Faulker's treatment of the alienated. A four-day symposium titled "Toni Morrison: Literature and Public Life" will take place Sept. 18-21 and include films, panels, workshops, the unveiling of a mural and other activities. The symposium is free and open to the public, with registration required by Sept. 8 via the Toni Morrison Collective website. The Toni Morrison Collective organizes the event in partnership with the Toni Morrison Society under the American Literature Association. The symposium opens Sept. 18, 3:30 p.m., at the A.D. White House.
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