mercyeltu 's review for:

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

5.0

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A total and inspiring reframing of American literature, re-centering it on the constructions of African-ness and blackness. Instead of simplifying the American literary canon to the social dominance of the white male, she exposes the very construction of the white male and the negation of blackness at that identity’s heart. Her innovation is an act of colonial reparations.