false <![CDATA[Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172885232m/228290.jpg 37405 11 <p> 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. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World--without the mandate for conquest." </p><p> Author of <i>Beloved</i>, <i>The Bluest Eye</i>, <i>Song of Solomon</i>, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. Her compelling point is that the central characteristics of American literature individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell--are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence. </p><p> Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examine the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of Huckleberry Finn. A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction. </p><p> Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, <i>Playing in the Dark</i> will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature. </p> 1076615 7 4 1992 Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination total:697|5:242|4:275|3:140|2:35|1:5| 697 2805 1022 38 37405 0674673778 9780674673779 576 28 Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168914826m/37405.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37405.Playing_in_the_Dark_Whiteness_and_the_Literary_Imagination 4 1 false Sun Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 07 13:34:54 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 17 11:16:10 -0700 2008 Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Morrison's central argument in this book is a fairly simple one, that "the contemplation of this black presence [in American history...more...]]> 228290 0679745424 9780679745426 120 10 Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172885232m/228290.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228290.Playing_in_the_Dark_Whiteness_and_the_Literary_Imagination 2 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 19:54:29 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 13 05:28:38 -0800 2007 Toni Morrison'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 "whiteness" means.

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