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- catalog abstract "The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature. "By going for the American literary jugular ... she places her arguments ... at the very heart of contemporary public conversation about what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly ... reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."".
- catalog contributor b7354779.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Black matters -- Romancing the shadow -- Disturbing nurses and the kindness of sharks.".
- catalog description "The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature. "By going for the American literary jugular ... she places her arguments ... at the very heart of contemporary public conversation about what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly ... reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."".
- catalog extent "xiii, 91 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0679745424 (pbk.) :".
- catalog identifier "9780679745426 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Vintage Books,".
- catalog subject "810.9 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "American literature White authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Black in literature.".
- catalog subject "Blacks in literature.".
- catalog subject "Human skin color in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS173.N4 M67 1993".
- catalog subject "Race in literature.".
- catalog subject "White in literature.".
- catalog subject "Whites in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Black matters -- Romancing the shadow -- Disturbing nurses and the kindness of sharks.".
- catalog title "Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination / Toni Morrison.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".