charlietheninth 's review for:

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

3.0

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Morrison writes here about how what she calls an Africanist presence influences and interacts with classic American literature. Essentially, she writes about how white authors used (or ignored) black characters and histories as a way to develop white characters in contrast. The parts where she draws on direct textual evidence are fantastic, but unfortunately that makes up less than half of the 90 page book. The rest is a sort of literary spit-balling that I found repetitive.