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 improve just how we read American literature even as it opens a fresh chapter in the American dialogue on race.

Toni Morrison’s excellent discussions of the ‘Africanist’ presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway potential clients to a dramatic reappraisal of the fundamental characteristics of our literary custom. She shows just how much the themes of about Playing AT NIGHT: Whiteness as well as the Literary Imagination independence and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended in the existence of a black populace that was manifestly unfree–and that found serve white writers as embodiments of their personal fears and desires.

Written with the artistic vision that has gained Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Taking part in in the Dark will become avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.

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

–Chicago Tribune

‘Toni Morrison may be the closest matter the country must a national article writer.’

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