Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.

Toni Morrison's 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. She 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.

Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.




  • Format:Paperback
  • Pages:104 pages
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  • Publisher:Harvard University Press
  • Edition:First Edition ~1st Printing
  • Language:eng
  • ISBN10:0674673778
  • ISBN13:9780674673779
  • kindle Asin:B000RN869M



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