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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
Morrison T. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992). In: Racism in America: A Reader. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press; 2020. p.1-9. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674251656-004
1 mag 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.
1 mag 1992 · Toni Morrison. 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.
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Harvard University Press, 1992 - Education - 91 pages. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of...
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In African American literature: African American roots. …Harlem during the 1920s, and Playing in the Dark, a trenchant examination of whiteness as a thematic obsession in American literature. In 1993 Morrison became the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her later works include Paradise (1998), which traces ...
27 lug 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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