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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.
1 de may. de 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. Show more. Genres Nonfiction Essays Race Literary Criticism African American Writing Theory. ...more.
Open Access Published by Harvard University Press 2020. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) From the book Racism in America. Toni Morrison. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674251656-004. Cite this. © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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 literature — from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black ...
1 de may. de 1992 · Toni Morrison. 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.
27 de jul. de 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.
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...
