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PLAYING IN THE DARK
WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION |
| By: |
Toni Morrison |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674673778 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674673779 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
7 April, 1992 |
| Series: |
The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization 1992 |
| Pages: |
110 |
| Description: |
Morrison discusses the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events and forms of social decay, economic division and human panic. |
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Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events and forms of social decay, economic division and human panic. Her point is that the central characteristics of American literature - individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell - are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daringly original perspective that aims to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examines the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of "Huckleberry Finn". A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is an exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction. |
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US |
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Harvard University Press |
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