guinness74 's review for:

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

3.5

challenging informative slow-paced

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This is purely academic writing from Morrison and I don’t mean that in a bad way, but it is definitely not her fictional style. Frankly, the depth of her arguments is stultifying, at least in part. The last third of the book, the 3rd lecture I suppose, is the one I enjoyed (understood?) the most. Possibly because I had immersed and invested myself by that point. However, all too soon, it was complete. I suspect the lectures themselves were more engaging than simply reading them, but this is a textbook in many ways and should be read as such.