{"product_id":"playing-in-the-dark-whiteness-and-the-literary-imagination-paperback","title":"Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eToni Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and \u003cb\u003epromises to change the way we read American literature\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003efrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly \u003ci\u003eunfree\u003c\/i\u003e--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, Morrison \"reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.\" Her 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, \u003ci\u003ePlaying in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003eToni 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. \u003cbr\u003eWritten 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. \u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"--Chicago Tribune \u003cbr\u003e\"Toni Morrison is the closest thing the country has to a national writer.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eToni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1970) to \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 27, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756923715872,"sku":"9780679745426","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/be08ea71a0ae86fb277d55c6a4b1da84.webp?v=1780089324","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/playing-in-the-dark-whiteness-and-the-literary-imagination-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}