Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by:
Toni Morrison (author)
The authors goal 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 a...
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The authors goal 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 a mandate for conquest.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780674673779 (0674673778)
Publish date: May 1st 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages no: 110
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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