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

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

110 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction essays race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an ar...

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informative 92%
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relaxing 1%
sad 1%

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