jarcher 's review for:

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

3.0

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Playing in the Dark discusses the way that Africanist subjects are utilized to describe and enhance the meaning of whiteness in classic literature. The text showed me a new way to read minor characters that I had never before considered. Interestingly, the work passed no judgements on the authors and books themselves, and often praised novels that I might have deemed bigoted on first reading. Morrison proves not only to be a genius of craft, but a brilliant literary critic as well.