Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination
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Newark Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
810.9 MOR
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810.9 MOR
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Nonfiction
810.9 MOR
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810.9 MOR
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xiii, 91 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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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. Toni Morrison's 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. She 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. 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. "By going for the American literary jugular ... she places her arguments ... at the very heart of contemporary public conversation about what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly ... reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Morrison, T. (1993). Playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination (1st Vintage Books edition.). Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Morrison, Toni. 1993. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Vintage Books, 1993.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 1st Vintage Books edition., Vintage Books, 1993.
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