UWI BOOKSHOP » Faculty of Humanities and Education » English » EN0818 » PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
Model: EN0818
ISBN: 9780679745426
Authors: MORRISON, TONI
Publishers: RANDOM HOUSE
Price: $955.00JMD
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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 September, 2011.
Reviews
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.........