Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
27 July 1993
Pages
112
ISBN
9780679745426

Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

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-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.

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