Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Contemporary Classic

A four-day class series taught by Dr. Larry Allums

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Recently chosen by a New York Times panel as the best American novel of the past 25 years, Toni Morrison's Beloved fulfills the criteria of a contemporary classic: an aesthetic pleasure and an intellectual challenge, a work better studied in a group than pondered alone, and an art form for the ages containing essential revelations about our culture. Published in 1987, Beloved is recognized as the most important novel about slavery since Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. More than that, it portrays the struggles of Sethe, one of the most memorable heroines in all literature, and Paul D, a freed slave like Sethe who must find a way for them both to create a future out of an almost unbearable past.

The class is open to members of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, as well non-members. Prices vary for the four-day series

Tuition: - members $60 - nonmembers $75 - teachers $20

Information from venue's website

Some nearby drink specials on Dec. 5th

• El Fenix Mexican Restaurant (Dallas / McKinney & Woodall Rodgers): 3 pm - 6 pm: $6 margaritas; $1 off all liquor
• Perry's Restaurant: 5 pm - 7 pm: $2 domestics, $1 -$2 off drinks
• Uptown Pub: 4 pm - 7 pm: $1 off domestics, $2.50 drafts, $3 wells
• Jake's Old Fashioned Hamburgers (Dallas / McKinney Ave): 4 pm - 7 pm: $3 you call its, $2 beers, cosmopolitans and appletinis
• Primo's Bar & Grille: 4 pm - 7 pm: $1 off liquor, beer, & wine / 11 am - 2 am: $2.75 margaritas

Some nearby restaurants

• Los Arcos
• Dick's Last Resort
• The Club
• Stoneleigh P
• Bambino's Italian Grill

Some nearby events on Dec. 5th

• Dixie Chicks / Pete Yorn, American Airlines Center, 8 p.m.
• Christmas at the White House with Linda Faulkner, Robert E. Lee Park, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• Michael W. Smith, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, 7:30 p.m.
• Jon Griffin, Sambuca (Dallas), 7:30 p.m.

Event posted Nov. 15, 2006
Last updated Nov. 15, 2006