Playing in the Dark (Whiteness and the Literary Imagination)

whiteness and the literary imagination

Hardcover, 112 pages

Spanish language

Published Jan. 1, 1993 by MacMillan.

ISBN:
978-0-330-33064-0
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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. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature ... draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World--without the mandate for conquest." Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. …

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Subjects

  • Black studies
  • Literary studies: 19th century
  • Literary studies: from c 1900 -
  • USA
  • General
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • French