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Playing the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination
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Playing the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination
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Playing the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination
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Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly
and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the
, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her 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.
Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters,
is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.