jakekilroy 's review for:

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

4.0

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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.