Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Audiobook (Free)

The Nobel Prize-winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change just how we read American literature even while it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.

Toni Morrison’s outstanding discussions from the ‘Africanist’ presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential features of our literary tradition. She shows how much the styles of about Playing In The Dark: Whiteness as well as the Literary Imagination independence and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended around the existence of a black populace that was manifestly unfree–and that came to serve white writers as embodiments of their own fears and wishes.

Written using the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Performing in the Dark will end up being avidly go through by Morrison admirers aswell as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.

‘By choosing the American literary jugular…she areas her arguments…at the heart of contemporary general public conversation in what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly…reimagines and remaps the chance of America.’

–Chicago Tribune

‘Toni Morrison is the closest issue the country must a national article writer.’

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