Playing in the Dark
by:
Toni Morrison (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307388636 (0307388638)
Publish date: July 24th 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
African American,
Philosophy,
Theory,
Race
Recent reread. Argues that American literature (and culture) develops its ideas of liberty, independence, humanity, civilization, whiteness from a suppressed and subjugated blackness. Persuasive the first time, persuasive now. Elides the presence/influence/enforced absence of American Indians a b...
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