Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

104 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction essays race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree – and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires...

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