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In our discourse on race, the subject is often focused upon the struggles black people must endure in our white dominated society. Instead of delving into how black americans are harmed by white American literature, Morrison "averts the critical gaze from the racial object to the racial subject", looking chiefly how the presence of Africans and later African Americans shapes american literature and in turn how white americans view themselves.

This was a profound investigation into " the ways in which a nonwhite, Africanist presence and personae have been constructed in the United States, and of the literary uses this fabricated presence is served"


It was truly eye opening!