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"turning the eye from the racial object to the racial subject"
what is whiteness to the white
what does the absence of blackness mean? what does it's shadow tell us? what does the construction of blackness within the text tell us about how the characters view whiteness?
understanding the immigrant experience in literature with this in mind - a white backdrop? a black backdrop? the making of the American and the hyphenated other
images of blackness as self contradictory (ex. fearful and desirable) makes "whiteness... mute, meaningless, pointless, frozen, etc"
mentally connecting this to Fanon - the master is not a master without the slave. imagining power not as free from master/slave but as the master and not the slave
also connecting this to The dark fantastic: race and the imagination ...
how does the author position non white characters to the whiteness of white characters? the places where they slip (where the character choice does not make sense but the author is attempting to maintain the structure they set up - the example of the mom waiting for the white child) also thinking of the side kick non-white characters as NPC's- there for the main character, enables their becoming, inspires their arc and the limits of their being
the way she read Hemingway at the end ... like that's crazy
need to go to sleep
what is whiteness to the white
what does the absence of blackness mean? what does it's shadow tell us? what does the construction of blackness within the text tell us about how the characters view whiteness?
understanding the immigrant experience in literature with this in mind - a white backdrop? a black backdrop? the making of the American and the hyphenated other
images of blackness as self contradictory (ex. fearful and desirable) makes "whiteness... mute, meaningless, pointless, frozen, etc"
mentally connecting this to Fanon - the master is not a master without the slave. imagining power not as free from master/slave but as the master and not the slave
also connecting this to The dark fantastic: race and the imagination ...
how does the author position non white characters to the whiteness of white characters? the places where they slip (where the character choice does not make sense but the author is attempting to maintain the structure they set up - the example of the mom waiting for the white child) also thinking of the side kick non-white characters as NPC's- there for the main character, enables their becoming, inspires their arc and the limits of their being
the way she read Hemingway at the end ... like that's crazy
need to go to sleep
Brilliant and you should seriously read it. I read it as I was working on an essay on Sylvia Plath and race - as critics love to deny Plath's racist culpability. Morrison, in her criticism of White writing as a whole, lays bear the plots, again and again, of Plath's poems involving Whiteness, Blackness, and "the Other" (term used by Plath critics). Key example is Plath's "Ariel" poem, a poem on which I could find not one single piece of racial analysis. If you aim to be a critical, intelligent consumer of White literature to any degree, I cannot encourage reading this work enough. Morrison is one of the greatest literary minds of our time, this being but one testament.
this was a tough audiobook read and I wasn’t familiar with a lot of the literature Morrison referenced but I don’t think it’s fair to knock it any stars due to my own reading comprehension issues lol. got the ebook so i’m looking forward to combing thru it more carefully. my favorite chapter (essay? lecture?) was Romancing the Shadow. As I read more into literary themes and analysis I really enjoyed what this collection has to offer.
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Elegant prose (not surprising), bold yet intuitive analysis, opens an ability to view whiteness, establishes an Africanist (her term-read book for explanation-it's quite compact) presence in American history, consciousness, and metaphor.
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