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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
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This book is dense. The sentences are cluttered. If it weren’t for he fact that it’s only like 90 pages, i wouldn’t have pushed myself to finish it. It’s a shame because such an important message should be more accessible to the average reader. I’ve heard others complain of Morrison’s writing style. I missed out on a lot of what she was saying, which is disappointing because I was really interested. I understand why this book isn’t more famous.
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Started my foray into Toni Morrison's non-fic today, beginning with Playing in the Dark. This work was particularly good I thought, and probably the closest I will ever come to actually hearing a lecture by Morrison, and mostly examined the presence of 'the africanist' in American literature.
This was particularly useful to me as I have been considering doing a Masters in American lit but with a particular emphasis on African-American lit and this book gave me the exact lens that I needed to approach authors like Twain, Melville, Hawthorne, etc but still stay within my area of special interest.
Onto What Moves at the Margins now! More Toni Morrison chat soon!
Booklove,
Grace
EDIT:
It's nice to look back on my input above now that I AM doing a PhD in American Studies with a particular focus on African-American writing and I am reading this for class. Go me for fulfilling my dreams!
This was particularly useful to me as I have been considering doing a Masters in American lit but with a particular emphasis on African-American lit and this book gave me the exact lens that I needed to approach authors like Twain, Melville, Hawthorne, etc but still stay within my area of special interest.
Onto What Moves at the Margins now! More Toni Morrison chat soon!
Booklove,
Grace
EDIT:
It's nice to look back on my input above now that I AM doing a PhD in American Studies with a particular focus on African-American writing and I am reading this for class. Go me for fulfilling my dreams!
Please, if you ever write about the claims Morrison makes within her fiction, use this to back up your points. If you’re a white writer, do not insert your own explanations of Blackness based on what you think Morrison is saying. She is incredibly clear within this criticism, as well as other essays. Do not contribute to the problem at hand here, which is silencing authors of color with the white imagination. This criticism changed my life and the way I study literature, and I’m grateful for that.
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100% recommend this book. Toni's only nonfinction book. From '92 (around the time of her Nobel Prize).
In this book she studies the ideas of race, whiteness, and Africanism in US American Literature.
As profound and academic as this book is, its less than 100 pages and it's not too difficult of a read. I definitely have been experiencing literature (and comics/other media) with a new lens and critical inquisitiveness.
Read it! Its good!
In this book she studies the ideas of race, whiteness, and Africanism in US American Literature.
As profound and academic as this book is, its less than 100 pages and it's not too difficult of a read. I definitely have been experiencing literature (and comics/other media) with a new lens and critical inquisitiveness.
Read it! Its good!