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Jul 27, 1993 · Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Paperback – July 27, 1993. by Toni Morrison (Author) 4.7 630 ratings. Part of: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies (17 books) See all formats and editions.
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is a 1992 work of literary criticism by Toni Morrison. In it she develops a reading of major white American authors and traces the way their perceptions of blackness gave defining shape to their works, and thus to the American literary canon.
- Peter Nazareth, Toni Morrison
- 1992
May 1, 1992 · 4.31. 6,876 ratings631 reviews. 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 ...
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May 1, 1992 · Hardcover. ISBN 9780674673779. Publication date: 05/01/1992. Request exam copy. Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination.
Books. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry...
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Paperback – 1 Aug. 1993. 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.
- Toni Morrison
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. 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 ...