Playing in the Dark
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by Toni Morrison
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Nonfiction.
The Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 Po...
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