{"product_id":"playing-in-the-dark-whiteness-and-the-literary-imagination","title":"Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePlaying in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eToni Morrison\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780674673779\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarvard University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1992\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e110\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003ePulitzer 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 argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World--without the mandate for conquest.\" Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth 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 compelling 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 daring perspective that is sure 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 examine 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 a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction. Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morri\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination | Toni Morrison | Hardcover | 9780674673779 | Used: Good | Back Stacks I 1753309","offer_id":49000457633944,"sku":"1753309","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61g-W-i9xcL.jpg?v=1778245276","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/playing-in-the-dark-whiteness-and-the-literary-imagination","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}