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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a>'s three lectures in this book deal with the polarity between white and black characters in American literature, racial insights and constructs a definition of what &quot;whiteness&quot; means.<br/><br/>What happens is Morrison spends considerable amount of space discussing how each m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1170259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If only all literary criticism and theory were as well-written, clear, and concise as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a>'s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Morrison's central argument in this book is a fairly simple one, that &quot;the contemplation of this black presence [in American history...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4221556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good idea that didn't just didn't happen. Instead of flexing some critical muscle she just tosses up 16 inch softballs and bunts them.  If you're going to analyze racial codification in American Literature through manifestation of whiteness and blackness, here is a tip; don't write about the &quot;A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2257186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Morrison, who is a stunning writer, also has a history in publishing. She combines her literary brillance with her ability to critique, and the result is a solid academic work delving into the symbols writers and society use to establish binaries of good/bad, black/white, beautiful/ugly. Certainly t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/823950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Morrison is better at writing novels than writing lit crit, but her mind is sharp and clear and her observations, while not staggering, are worth listening to.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, what I don't like about Morrison's critical work is that it ignores the reality of First Peoples and our presence in literature.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I found so compelling was how well Morrison articulates the idea of experiences and specific moments only being played out or felt by African Americans – what does that do to the people forced and written into these moments over and over?  But  Morrison also asks a question that is ignored so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34463771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should confess that Morrison will never get a flat-out criticism from this reviewer.  I'm a bit of a fanatic, a would-be groupie.  Read this one, my first experience with Morrison's non-fiction, for a paper I'm working on--incidentally, on &quot;Beloved&quot; (and tangentially, Faulkner's &quot;Li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21046895">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of three insightful lecture transcriptions that call us to focus our gaze upon the sensitive subject of race in America.  Morrison asks what it means to live in a society whose freedom documents were signed into being by men who were slave owners at the time of signing.  Imagining that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59482987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my opinion <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a> is a genius with language, so anything she has to say I am intersted in.  This monograph explores the extent to which what we leave out of what we write defines us as much as what we include.  In Morrison's case it in an investigation of how this applies to canonical Amer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37674428">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i just wished that i'd read everything she critiqued in this book before i read this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The present absence and the absent presence.  Great stuff.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An important landmark in American literary criticism.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How does race relations influence works of fiction? One might argue that it essentially doesn’t matter because works of fiction aren’t held to the same standards of nonfiction. Morrison makes it clear that it obviously matters being that peoples’ ideas and concepts of such matters as race are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14460593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recent reread.  Argues that American literature (and culture) develops its ideas of liberty, independence, humanity, civilization, <em>whiteness</em> from a suppressed and subjugated <em>blackness</em>.  Persuasive the first time, persuasive now.  Elides the presence/influence/enforced absence of American Indians a b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15150195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am fascinated with stories and their implications and insinuations concerning race so this book is right up my alley. This is a literary &amp; cultural theory text which can make it a bit tedious for some readers but I have to say that this is one of the clearest pieces of theoretical writing that I'v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33893231">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for African American Lit. in college; it's extremely laborious reading for such a thin volume, I can't remember a single point she made. Every other word sent me to the dictionary, and every word after that wasn't even IN the standard dictionary! Don't read this book unless you must:)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed my life and my writing, all I can say is if you are a white writer, read it, racism is not what you think, it is that fear that keeps your black characters in the margins, Morrison will teach you to own your perceptions of race and bring them center stage where they belong.]]></body>
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