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justanothersamsmith 's review for:
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by Toni Morrison
It goes unsaid at this point that the quality of Toni Morrison's writing is simply ineffable.
In "Playing in the Dark" more specifically I found the wider-reaching and overarching literary analyses to be the most interesting as I feel that I could access and benefit from them the most. However, when Morrison moved to more in-depth textual analyses on canonical American literature which I, in the main, have not read nor ever come across, the textual-specificity of the writing became less pertinent to my reading experience and to an extent lost me. I am sure however that if I were to revisit this text after reading the sidelined works by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, my reception of this text would change largely.
Therefore, though the quality of the writing is never less than wonderful, my experience reading "Playing in the Dark" was largely skewed by my inaccessibility to its field of reference; and though this is completely my own doing, it nevertheless did impact my reading of this otherwise fantastic non-fiction text.
Four stars.
In "Playing in the Dark" more specifically I found the wider-reaching and overarching literary analyses to be the most interesting as I feel that I could access and benefit from them the most. However, when Morrison moved to more in-depth textual analyses on canonical American literature which I, in the main, have not read nor ever come across, the textual-specificity of the writing became less pertinent to my reading experience and to an extent lost me. I am sure however that if I were to revisit this text after reading the sidelined works by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, my reception of this text would change largely.
Therefore, though the quality of the writing is never less than wonderful, my experience reading "Playing in the Dark" was largely skewed by my inaccessibility to its field of reference; and though this is completely my own doing, it nevertheless did impact my reading of this otherwise fantastic non-fiction text.
Four stars.