false 59457098 1274448 37405 0674673778 9780674673779 28 <![CDATA[Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168914826m/37405.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168914826s/37405.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37405.Playing_in_the_Dark_Whiteness_and_the_Literary_Imagination 4.03 583 Beloved explores the significance of African Americans in the American literary imagination, examining the works of Cather, Poe, Twain, Hawthorne, and Melville to argue that American literature's central characteristics are responses to an Africanist presence.]]> 3534 3.80 89183 6221 1992 0 0 false Fri Jun 12 18:01:49 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 18:01:49 -0700 2009