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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
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My only complaint is that it is too short.
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This is a valuable text, and Morrison has a strong argument about the way whiteness in literary imagination can only be understood through the othering of African American writers and characters. I almost wish there was more to this text and I probably should’ve read the works she discusses before listening. Still, a powerful work!
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It's an intriguing thesis, but I'm afraid she doesn't delve deep into any of the texts she discusses. I feel like this is more of an outline, and a group of ideas that would make for wonderful expanded research. Looking at what academia has developed into, though, this was a great jumping-off point.
I would have liked to have seen her talk about her own work and how she tried to address the issue of Africanism in it; I would have liked to have seen her address non-white, non-African people in America and how they contribute to the blackness that America needs as a backdrop. This especially when Native Americans were enslaved and systematically killed in what we now see as genocide. But, I understand that she was focusing on the treatment of African slaves and African Americans.
I adore Toni Morrison, but I would consult this text as a work from the early discussions of race in American literature.
I would have liked to have seen her talk about her own work and how she tried to address the issue of Africanism in it; I would have liked to have seen her address non-white, non-African people in America and how they contribute to the blackness that America needs as a backdrop. This especially when Native Americans were enslaved and systematically killed in what we now see as genocide. But, I understand that she was focusing on the treatment of African slaves and African Americans.
I adore Toni Morrison, but I would consult this text as a work from the early discussions of race in American literature.
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This is such an important read about how Black people were/are written by white authors in the 1900s. I also just love the way Toni writes hehe
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