Playing in the Dark - by Toni Morrison (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A Pulitzer Prize-winning author illuminates the "Africanist" presence shaping the American imagination in a landmark work of literary criticism. "Morrison challenge(s) some of the most widely accepted generalizations about our literary history".--San Francisco Chronicle.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and<b> promises to change the way we read American literature.</b></b> <p/>Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly <i>unfree</i>--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, 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. <p/>Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, <i>Playing in the Dark</i> is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A profound redefinition of American cultural identity.--Philadelphia Inquirer <p/>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. <i>--Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>Toni Morrison is the closest thing the country has to a national writer. --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from <i>The Bluest Eye</i> (1970) to <i>God Help the Child</i> (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.
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