Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by Toni Morrison
Description
Toni 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.
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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.
About the Author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels and several essay collections. From 1989 to 2006, Morrison was the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
Product Details
Category: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
Language: English
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0679745424
ISBN-13: 978-0679745426
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: July 27, 1993
Pages: 112
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