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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
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.
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1 mag 1992 · Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature. Genres Nonfiction Essays Race Literary Criticism African American Writing Theory. ...more. 104 pages, Paperback.
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1 mag 1992 · In three compact and skillful essays, Morrison explores and illumines the gaggle of literary devices—conceits, tropes, metaphors—that have been mostly unconsciously deployed by white writers to refract the rays of blackness through the prism of literary silence, repression or avoidance.
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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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...
