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dandelionfluff 's review for:
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by Toni Morrison
It's an intriguing thesis, but I'm afraid she doesn't delve deep into any of the texts she discusses. I feel like this is more of an outline, and a group of ideas that would make for wonderful expanded research. Looking at what academia has developed into, though, this was a great jumping-off point.
I would have liked to have seen her talk about her own work and how she tried to address the issue of Africanism in it; I would have liked to have seen her address non-white, non-African people in America and how they contribute to the blackness that America needs as a backdrop. This especially when Native Americans were enslaved and systematically killed in what we now see as genocide. But, I understand that she was focusing on the treatment of African slaves and African Americans.
I adore Toni Morrison, but I would consult this text as a work from the early discussions of race in American literature.
I would have liked to have seen her talk about her own work and how she tried to address the issue of Africanism in it; I would have liked to have seen her address non-white, non-African people in America and how they contribute to the blackness that America needs as a backdrop. This especially when Native Americans were enslaved and systematically killed in what we now see as genocide. But, I understand that she was focusing on the treatment of African slaves and African Americans.
I adore Toni Morrison, but I would consult this text as a work from the early discussions of race in American literature.