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I read this for a Critical Theory course. I won’t be writing my capstone on it, with all due respect to Toni Morrison. Important, nonetheless.
This has really changed the way I think about every American novel I've read. Honestly think if you are in a book club reading white authors or "white stories," this is required reading!!
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Morrison's one of the best to ever do it/anything, and her ability to observe, acknowledge, peruse, dissect, and arrange all of American literature in the context of how white people essentially established America as a synonym for themselves, simultaneously ignoring/attacking black art while using black culture/existence as a stand-in for the brutal antonym of the supposed heroism, purity, and normalcy of whiteness, especially in the country's evolving literary offerings, is fascinating in both its sharpness and curiosity. She just seems rigorously capable of absorbing the sweeping breadth of it all and being able to calmly break down her take on behalf of readers everywhere.
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Very high brow, so I found myself having to reread passages. American literature readers are assumed to be white so works vary from racial invisibility, to esteem derived from racial degradation, or assigning dark traits/conflicts to Blackness. The Black presence is a wellspring that’s devalued.
I just don't care for literary papers. I also haven't read anything by Toni Morrison, so I had time relating all of her subject matters that were implied throughout this.
Also, it annoys me when writers use opposites to validate an argument which she does a lot... "It isn't heaven, nor hell. It isn't racist or unracist. It isn't just or unjust". That just annoys me.
Also, it annoys me when writers use opposites to validate an argument which she does a lot... "It isn't heaven, nor hell. It isn't racist or unracist. It isn't just or unjust". That just annoys me.