Originally published: May 1992
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Literary criticism
Pages: 110
Subject: Race, American literature, whiteness
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May 1, 1992 · This is a major work by a major American author… It is an exuberant exercise, conducted by a writer in her prime who knows that her own work ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Whiteness, alone, is mute, meaningless, unfathomable, pointless, frozen, veiled, curtained, dreaded, senseless, implacable. Or so our writers seem to say.
This book, she says, is an effort to change the critical gaze from the racial object to the racial subject. All of mankind loses when criticism is too polite or ...
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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 ...
Playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination / Toni Morrison.—. 1st Vintage Books ed. P. cm. ISBN 0-679-74542-4 (pbk.) 1. American literature ...
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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...
Apr 8, 2021 · Here, Morrison is writing herself into the story. She sees the ways white writers use blackness as tending towards “metaphorical shortcuts” ...