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Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Morrison, Toni
Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Morrison, Toni
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An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and promises to change the way we read American literature--from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 07/27/1993
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780679745426
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/05/1993
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 07/27/1993
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780679745426
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/05/1993
About the Author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
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